Benny Amorsen wrote:
"RH" == Richard Hughes hughsient@gmail.com writes:
RH> On Thu, 2007-02-01 at 01:21 +0100, Enrico Scholz wrote:
'suspend-to-disk' and 'suspend-to-ram' are much more descriptives names and more consistent with rest of system (/sys/power/state).
RH> And how many joe-average Linux users know what the contents of RH> /sys/power/state is? Also, my girlfriend has no concept of what RH> "ram" is, and why it should be faster than "disk".
RH> She does understand the speed difference between suspend and RH> hibernate.
I don't think I'll ever be able to remember which of suspend and hibernate means suspend-to-disk. Perhaps its easier for native English speakers, or perhaps I need my brain fixed.
/Benny
Hm, i've talked also with a few other folks here and maybe a short description would help a lot. Or do something like:
Hibernate (suspend to memory)
and
Suspend (suspend to harddisk)
although the later really looks wierd as suspend is used twice there. I'll try a few things and see what looks best, probably dicing up the description.
Read ya, Phil