The death of Hibernate?

[Darryl L. Pierce]

On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 06:08:34PM +0200, Reindl Harald wrote:
> 
> 
> Am 17.05.2012 17:52, schrieb Steve Underwood:
> > On 05/17/2012 11:15 PM, Tim wrote:
> >> On Thu, 2012-05-17 at 08:24 -0500, Michael Cronenworth wrote:
> >>> Hibernate and suspend are no longer necessary or helpful functions
> >>> either (on machines sold today).
> >> I suspend on my Laptop, all the time.  Quite apart from the speed issue,
> >> it's handy to be able to halt and resume, everything.
> >
> > Quite right. Only someone who never uses a laptop could think hibernate and suspend are no longer needed.
> 
> sure?
> 
> i used a laptop from 2003 until 2011 as my main working machine
> all the day and never came to the idea write a 6 GB to a slow
> mobile-disk and load it the next time instead simply shutdown/boot

And I used to do it all the time. There's no reason to shutdown and
reboot a system unless there's a kernel update, so being able to suspend
or hibernate a system and then restore at a later date is a convenience.

I only don't do it now because hibernate doesn't work for me with F17.

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