Fedora 10 - Boot Analysis

[Adam Williamson]

On Wed, 2008-12-17 at 01:10 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:

> On a laptop, can't you suspend first, then hibernate only if power drops 
> dangerously low (and while no one is waiting)?

...but what if the user wants to open up and use the system again,
without plugging it in, six hours later?

This is the fundamental problem with hybrid suspend: it has to make a
guess (when to stop suspending and start hibernating), and it can't
always guess right. Practically speaking, some people will always need
to say "go straight to hibernate".
-- 
adamw