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What do I want to see in the Linux ecosystem in 2025? (news.itsfoss.com)
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[–] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Good luck with this approach on a server.

Indeed, obviously I'm talking about desktops here.

If by ‘suspend’ you mean that the process will just halt, then: Which processes? All of them? Good luck displaying a message then.

You could use some kind of heuristic to suspend ones using the most memory/CPU. Or just suspend them all. Obviously you would exclude the processes needed to display the message.

If by ‘suspend’ you mean moving the memory to disk

No I meant just pausing their execution. I'm pretty sure ctrl-alt-del does something like this on Windows.