Shall we hide the GUI for Hibernate in Natty?

[sam tygier]

On 31/01/11 19:04, Rick Spencer wrote:  
> The reasoning for hiding Hibernate includes:
> 1. It doesn't work well for many users on many machines.
> 2. It's very slow.
> 3. It's not as useful because users can just suspend.
> 4. The difference between hibernate and suspend is confusing.
> 5. There is a lot of work involved with verifying that Hibernates works
> and fixing bugs to ensure that it works. This work is not always
> completed, and the work that does get done can be channeled to other
> useful areas. (In other words, fewer bugs through fewer features to
> support).
>
> However, Hibernate works well for some users, so this will be a painful
> regression[1].

On some machines hibernate works better than suspend.

Hibernate allows removing power, good for moving a desktop, or swapping batteries on a laptop.

shutting down is not a good substitute for hibernate, as your state is lost.

2.6.37 got a patch to make hibernation use LZO compression, which should speed it up a bit
http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_37#head-c54c78eb967e3246f2089c1a25cc9bcd31dd03d8

sam