On 01/12/11 07:49, "Jérôme M. Berger" wrote: > Leonid Isaev wrote: >> Hibernating is a purely windows concept, doing it on a linux machine is >> basically looking for trouble, especially because hibernation gives no benefits >> over shutting down. > > I never reboot my laptop unless I just upgraded the kernel and I > don't have any issues. Hibernation has two benefits over shutting down: > - Waking up is faster (ok, that's a small benefit because booting > Arch is very fast, but still...) > - When waking up from hibernation, you get your desktop exactly the > way you left it, including any open files and tasks in progress. > This is especially useful when using a laptop on the move: start > working on something in the train, hibernate when you arrive at your > station, then wake up when you reach your desk and immediately pick > up where you left off). > > This has nothing to do with windows (although I admit that > hibernating is a purely laptop concept: I don't hibernate my desktop > PC and even less my servers). > Not entirely a laptop concept, I set my desktop to hibernate if UPS battery runs low. That way when power resumes I continue working from where I was, less downtime for me. Ross.
