On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 06:38:34PM -0700, Kenneth Porter wrote:
A good point, but note that "not always on" does not
necessarily mean
"needs to boot". That's why hibernation was invented. There's no reason
you
couldn't hibernate a laptop, and have huge "up times" with the power
removed. The question then becomes what kind of hibernation support is
available under Linux.
And the answer is: a lot, but you're very very lucky if it works.
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