FreeBSD Suspend/Resume

I have been using FreeBSD on the desktops/laptops since about 20 years now and I have described all that I configured in the FreeBSD Desktop series.

About 1 year ago I shared a video on YouTube and Vimeo showing how a busy FreeBSD 12.2 handles the suspend/resume cycle on a ThinkPad W520 laptop on a FreeBSD system.

Why not FreeBSD 14.2 as its already available? Because pkg(8) packages are built against ‘oldest’ FreeBSD version in the current tree – which means FreeBSD 14.1 – and that often breaks kernel related packages such as really important drm-kmod or virtualbox-ose-kmod packages.

I will upgrade from 14.1 to 14.2 shortly after 14.1 runs out of support – which would guarantee having working pkg(8) packages on FreeBSD 14.2.

I leave You with a dilemma on how a Windows or macOS or Linux system running on the laptop/desktop behaves differently then FreeBSD here …

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