On Fri, 2007-02-02 at 16:19 +0100, Till Maas wrote:
hibernate (suspend to disk) sleep (suspend to ram)
No, sleep is used and has been used for all the sleep states over the years, S1, S3 *and* S4. It's got no real meaning anymore.
If talking about situations involving suspend and hibernate, sleep if okay as it means both, and in this case I think it's harmless.
Richard.