I'm just a lurker here, I'm just a user and I don't tend to say a lot. But remember that:
1) Not everyone uses laptops. Desktop PCs do not have a battery and losing power during a suspend is a no-no. 2) Not everyone has a long running battery. Suspend does eat a little bit of your battery charge, and for people with little charge available it's a recipe for disaster. 3) Suspend is not reliable for long periods of time, because there's too much that can go wrong. If I travel, put my notebook in my bag, or just leave it for a few days (it happens sometimes) I prefer to leave it in hibernation. Carlos Ribeiro On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 02:44, Marco Trevisan (Treviño) <m...@3v1n0.net>wrote: > Il giorno lun, 31/01/2011 alle 11.04 -0800, Rick Spencer ha scritto: > > Hello all, > > > > This email is to get some feedback and discussion about an idea under > > consideration for Ubuntu in Natty. > > > > Natty is currently NOT showing the Hibernate option in the list of > > shutdown choices. This is currently an experiment, but I thought it > > might be worth discussing the pros and cons on these lists as well. > > > > The reasoning for hiding Hibernate includes: > > 1. It doesn't work well for many users on many machines. > > This is partly true: it has improved a lot in recent times... > > > 2. It's very slow. > > True, unfortunately true. But this is valid just for the standard kernel > hibernation. Using TuxOnIce would improve a *lot* the usability and > speed. Until something like TuxOnIce would be in the kernel, the > hibernation is completely useless, if not damaging (sometimes ubuntu in > low battery starts hibernating and it takes many minutes to perform the > task, while it's impossible to stop the process!). > > > 3. It's not as useful because users can just suspend. > Mh, not true... Suspending is useful, but sometimes I really need to > hibernate (i.e. remove laptop battery, keep it away from AC for long > time...). > > > 4. The difference between hibernate and suspend is confusing. > > True. > > > > -- > ubuntu-devel mailing list > ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel > -- Carlos Ribeiro Consultoria em Projetos twitter: http://twitter.com/carribeiro blog: http://rascunhosrotos.blogspot.com mail: carribe...@gmail.com
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