On fre, 2004-07-23 at 22:03 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 06:38:34PM -0700, Kenneth Porter wrote:
> A good point, but note that "not always on" does not necessarily mean
> "needs to boot". That's why hibernation was invented. There's no
reason you
> couldn't hibernate a laptop, and have huge "up times" with the power
> removed. The question then becomes what kind of hibernation support is
> available under Linux.
And the answer is: a lot, but you're very very lucky if it works.
There are a number of different kernel patches to implement this, none
of which really work, and it's not integrated well with userspace, I see
no option to hibernate the machine when I log out of GNOME fx.
Hibernation isn't an option currently.
- David