On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 2:26 PM, Ed Greshko <ed.gres...@greshko.com> wrote:

> On 01/02/14 06:09, Richard Vickery wrote:
> > I just called up the gnome-tweak-tool: what's the difference between
> suspend and hibernate? It gives these, among other sleeping actions when
> folding the computer up.
> >
> > Just curious - hibernate doesn't have a man page.
> >
>
> suspend keeps the system powered on, but in a low power mode.  No
> computing is done but the current working state is kept in memory.  Resume
> from suspend is very (or should be) quick.
>
> hibernate places memory on disk and the system is completely powered off.
>
>
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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