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
