Fedora reawakens the hibernation debate
Fedora reawakens the hibernation debate
[Distributions] Posted Sep 17, 2018 12:52 UTC (Mon) by corbet
Behavioral changes can make desktop users grumpy; that is doubly true for changes that arrive without notice and possibly risk data loss. Such a situation recently arose in the Fedora 29 development branch in the form of a new "suspend-then-hibernate" feature. This feature will almost certainly be turned off before Fedora 29 reaches an official release, but the discussion and finger-pointing it inspired reveal some significant differences of opinion about how this kind of change should be managed.