The death of Hibernate?

[Anthony R Fletcher]

On 06 Mar 2012 at 18:07:24, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
> On Tuesday, 6. March 2012. 17.42.41 Anthony R Fletcher wrote:
> > If you do a fresh boot you lose your current state....and that is
> > valuable. So hibernate (for long periods of down time, for example for a
> > long flight) is very useful.
> 
> What happened to the "save session" stuff that should be provided by all 
> relevant desktop environments? AFAIK, that can (and should) be used to save 
> the current state of your desktop across a reboot. Is there some aspect of 
> session-saving that doesn't give you back your desktop "state" in the way you 
> left it on logout?
> 
> I mean, it should open the same apps, keep them on same desktops, etc. I 
> thought the concept of a "session" was invented precisely for this purpose. 
> Using hibernate to achieve the same effect is possible, but should not be 
> necessary, right?
> 

That might work with some GUI programs but if the user has a bunch of
xterms open with some work in each then it just isn't going to get saved
correctly. Another example is some long running calculation that you
don't want to lose but does have a checkpoint feature. This would be
true with many other work flows as well. Why fight with each individual
application when you can just hibernate the machine.

		Anthony.