suspend or hibernate

[Robert Moskowitz]

On 01/01/2014 09:13 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> HI
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> On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 6:22 PM, Richard Vickery
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>     Ah! Thanks! I might find "hibernate" on my own: why would a user
>     use this command rather than saving and booting up? and How does
>     it know that to look for the memory?
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> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hibernation_%28computing%29
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> Note however that Linux support for this is pretty limited/ buggy and 
> I would recommend you don't do it.

That has been my experience over the years.  Though not that this is the 
standard behaviour on a drained battery; to hibernate.  So it is good to 
be sure it works, or change the low battery behaviour to poweroff.

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