Talk:Hibernate (OS feature)

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[edit] Feature exist in other system?

Does this feature exist in other operating systems, such as Linux or BSD?

Yes, in Linux there is a module called sys_suspend or soft_suspend, it writes an image of RAM memory to disk. However this was(as of kernel 2.4.X) in a seperate fork. Although both the maintainers of the fork and the Kernel(Linus) were working toward merging them.

This should be researched and written up.

[edit] A crack?

and a crack is available for the latest Tiger operating system to enable this feature for much older Mac computers.

I doubt cracks should be promoted on Wikipedia. maybe tell it another way e.g: "Altough there are undocumented ways ... or underground patches" if it's semi-legal to apply the "crack", or don't mention it at all.

In this case, I would say the crack is not illegal. I'd be better to speak of a patch though. If Tiger is shipped with such a function, it is not illegal to activate it. --Abdull 10:57, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

I reworded the bit about the "crack". --William Lovas 00:31, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Security Concerns

Someone should add that this is a security headache to have all of your ram written down anywhere. Ram can contain anything, passwords, banking details... This is worse than the pagefile.sys