Creator of Suspend2 announce retirement

Posted on March 9, 2006

Too Bad when I saw this kind of new….

“Nigel Cunningham, the creator of the Suspend2 software suspend system for Linux announced his retirement from the project in a mail sent to the Linux Kernel Mailing List as below:

List: linux-kernel
Subject: Nigel’s work and the future of Suspend2.
From: Nigel Cunningham [email blocked]
Date: 2006-03-07 0:05:51

Hi all.

I’m delighted to announce that I’ve accepted a call to serve a congregation in
Victoria, Australia, as a Home Missionary elder. As a result, some time in
the next month or two, I will stop working for Cyclades and make the move.

Users of Suspend2 can rest assured that I will not allow the patches to suffer
bitrot. I will be continuing to use them myself, and will therefore have the
best of incentives to keep them up-to-date.

Now for the downside: I won’t, however, be making any sort of concerted effort
at getting them merged into the vanilla kernel after my move, and am not
inclined to make a big effort beforehand. Recent discussions on LKML clearly
showed that Pavel doesn’t want to see them merged, and I didn’t see much in
the way of other kernel developers expressing a desire contrary to Pavel’s
wishes. I don’t want to waste my time and effort, so I don’t see the point to
doing anything but maintaining the patches as they stand.
I’d like to take this opportunity to thank Cyclades for their employment and
support of the project.

Regards,

Nigel

I was using Suspend 2 software last time before I upgrade to [tag]Ubuntu[/tag] [tag]Linux[/tag]. It’s used to startup/shutdown my laptop with faster speed.

Suspend 2 is most easily described as the Linux equivalent of Windows’ hibernate functionality. It saves the contents of memory to disk and powers down. When the computer is started up again, it reloads the contents and the user can continue from where they left off. No documents need to be reloaded or applications reopened and the process is much faster than a normal shutdown and start up.

More features here

If you are interesting with Suspend 2 software, you may download here.

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