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Subject: Re: [arch-general] pacman/libalpm/libfetch do not honor TMPDIR
Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2011 08:35:37 +1300
From: Ross Hamblin
Leonid Isaev wrote:
Hibernating is a purely windows concept, doing it on a linux machine is basically looking for trouble, especially because hibernation gives no benefits over shutting down.
I never reboot my laptop unless I just upgraded the kernel and I don't have any issues. Hibernation has two benefits over shutting down: - Waking up is faster (ok, that's a small benefit because booting Arch is very fast, but still...) - When waking up from hibernation, you get your desktop exactly the way you left it, including any open files and tasks in progress. This is especially useful when using a laptop on the move: start working on something in the train, hibernate when you arrive at your station, then wake up when you reach your desk and immediately pick up where you left off).
This has nothing to do with windows (although I admit that hibernating is a purely laptop concept: I don't hibernate my desktop PC and even less my servers).
Not entirely a laptop concept, I set my desktop to hibernate if UPS battery runs low. That way when power resumes I continue working from where I was, less downtime for me. Ross.