Hibernate and Media Centres

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 12:03:31AM +0100, Who wrote:
> On 6/12/06, Matt Zimmerman <mdz at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> >On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 05:27:57PM +0100, Who wrote:
> >> I am wondering about the possibility of using a specially set up case
> >> of the hibernate feature to allow a 'quick boot' (not quite 'instant
> >> on', as I read thawing takes 40 seconds...) mode for a home theatre
> >> PC.
> >
> >I think suspend-to-RAM is a better fit for this use case, since the resume
> >process is much faster.
> >
> 
> I understood that suspend-to-Ram required the PC to remain on...?Also,
> would it not require the user to put the OS into the state they wanted
> to find it in before suspending?

With suspend-to-RAM, only a few system components receive power.  The amount
of power consumed is very small.

> For example, if they were working on many office documents that they
> didn't want to be around when the PC was behaving as a media centre they
> would have to close them before suspending - rather than being able to
> suspend once in the desired 'Media Centre' state and reload that state
> time and time again, preserving the 'Office state' if they desired, as I
> was hoping might be possible...

I seem to have misunderstood your idea; it sounds like what you want is to
provide different work environments for the user to choose between.  This
seems simpler to accomplish by having multiple users logged in and switching
between them, never shutting down the system at all (or only suspending it
from time to time).

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 - mdz