Suspending to RAM in addition to suspending to disk

[Leon]

Nathan Grennan <fedora-test-list at cygnusx-1.org> writes:

> Yee Wei Law wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> This is probably not an appropriate question to ask on this mailing
>> list, but I have always been wondering, why is there only a
>> "Suspend" option in FC's GNOME "Shutdown..." menu?
>>
>> In contrast, Ubuntu provides two options: "Suspend to RAM" as well
>> as "Suspect to disk", which I personally think is a much desirable
>> feature.
>  I would guess, because suspend to disk actually works on most
> laptops, unlike suspend to ram.

Because suspend to disk belongs to shutdown category. With suspend to
ram, your computer is not shutdown. And in FC5 there is suspend-to-ram
under menu "Desktop->Suspend".

True, suspend-to-ram is less reliable.

-- 
Leon