There appear to be 3 competing suspend-to-disk (aka hibernate)
implementations in linux: swsusp, swsusp2, and pmdisk.

http://swsusp.sourceforge.net/features.html

Are any or all of them reliable? They all look potentially
great. However, all have indications that they not yet be
mature. pmdisk has patches in the latest Morton kernel.
swsusp2 is not yet integrated into the kernel distro, and
doesn't have patches since 2.6.2. I also see comments about
usb not being integrated. The idea that the most common
peripheral format is not fully handled is quite informative.

I just want to use hibernation in linux as I do in windows,
w/o spending expensive mindshare on the decision and
installation process, and w/o risking destruction. What do
you experts recommend?

Thanks.

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Wm Randolph Franklin
http://www.ecse.rpi.edu/Homepages/wrf/