I can actually relate to this myself: Does hibernate actually work with most Linux distributions? My answer is no, not generally. Unless you all know something that I do not, I have yet to get it to work properly. To be honest though, it has never really concerned me all that much.

Since I purchased my notebook and mentioned that I installed Fedora Linux 5 on it, I’ve been getting a lot of quesitons from people everywhere. One of the most frequent questions is “Does hybernate work?”.

You have to understand that this is my first notebook. At least in this century. So I am not very updated on the terminology and technologies involved. Trying to find out what ‘hybernate’ really is showed that different people mean different things.

There are many resources on the web that try to clear up the confusion. After going through a few of them, I came to realize that there are at least two separate terms here - ‘hybernate’ and ’suspend’.

‘Hybernate’ is a mode in which your notebook (or some other mobile device) saves the current state to hard disk and switches off. Nex time you start it, last working state is loaded from the hard disk and you go straight to all your applications, windows, etc. This is a handy feature. But going to and from hybernate mode takes a couple of minutes. Source: Blog of Leonid Mamchenkov

[tags]notebook,hard disk,hybernate,system suspend[/tags]