The death of Hibernate?

[Timothy Murphy]

Reindl Harald wrote:

>> Michael Cronenworth wrote:

Actually I said what you are quoting.

>> You are talking nonsense if by "modern" you mean "recent".
>> 
>> My daughter just bought an Asus laptop (1015BX) with 1GB RAM installed,
>> and a maximum 2GB RAM installable.
> 
> here is the question why buying crap these days?
> 
> my co-worker bought last year a notebook with 4 GB RAM
> normal HP machine around 800 € a year ago

My daughter's Asus notebook cost under €300, I think around €275.
It appears to serve her needs perfectly.

>> I don't consider Fedora suitable for a server.
> 
> your opinion

and I suspect that of most people who have to make this choice.

> if you need a recent software stack and have to
> compile all things at your won while libraries
> are outdated you are going through hell

I find CentOS-6 has everything I need on a server.
I don't feel any urge to re-compile libraries.
I have complete confidence that RedHat will do this for me if necessary.
If I want to do anything fancy I do it on a laptop.

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