[Nix-dev] [PATCH] Hibernate script -> 2.0 and enable linux_2_6_32_zen4 in all-packages.nix

Marc Weber marco-oweber at gmx.de
Fri Oct 22 15:45:36 CEST 2010


Excerpts from Cillian de Róiste's message of Fri Oct 22 15:12:19 +0200 2010:
> Ah, this is indeed what I meant by "standard". I believe that the
> Sleep/Hibernate buttons in KDE, Gnome etc. use pm-hibernate et. al.
> and that most desktop distros use pm-utils on a kernel without the
> TuxOnIce patch. I actually thought TuxOnIce was obsolete until someone
> mentioned it on the nixos irc channel.

It depends. AFAIK it has more features such as
- encryption
- multiple resumes from a state
- using multiple cores
- ..

But you should consult the homepage. Its more accurate than 
me. I don't know anyone using it at the moment.
Unfortunately I never had the time to implement a test case.

Marc Weber



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