> > What about a "sleep" function that stores a complete live image on the
> > swapspace and then shuts down for a quick reload after
> power-on. It
And stores complete image of hw, which is unknown - you forgot to
say. If you want to be able to suspend X, you would need to save state
of VGA card which is impossible, or to have GGI.
This is _really_ hard to do. I see alternate way: make your /etc/rc
scripts boot up *fast*. It can be done: my machine does not spend more
than 10 seconds in userland initialization.
> > ought to be possible to give all kind of PC:s the same function as a
> > laptops builtin poweroff/resume.
Pavel
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