inconsistent use of the words "suspend" and "sleep" on the desktop

[Scott Robinson]

On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 08:03:10PM -0400, Patrick McFarland wrote:
> On Wednesday 03 May 2006 19:32, Bonilla, Alejandro wrote:
> > The term is Suspend, short of Suspend to RAM. But this is Ubuntu Linux
> > for Humans so Sleep is maybe the right word.
> 
> Thats my reasoning too. That, and suspend has a negative feel to it... ask any 
> kid who has had to visit the principal's office in school. ;)
> 

Personally, I'm shocked that hibernate is used. Sleep and suspend being
words much more likely to be in a random person's vocabulary.

Scott.

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