Hello,
Is it possible to put linux on standby as one would with windows (I use a mandrake distribution)?
Julien.

What do you mean by "Standby"?

I mean by "standby" that the power is off but when I restart my os, everything is restored exactly as it was when I left (or put on standby) the os eg if I was playing a mp3 it will resume and so on.
J.

This is a function of the BIOS. There's a couple different power management standards, and Linux has some utilities that let you use these BIOS functions:

If you have ACPI, this thread suggests:
If, like me, you don't have that, and you have APM, you can do:
The lowercase -s is "suspend" mode, the uppercase -S is "standby" mode. Standby mode doesn't work for me but suspend does (although, I have to press the power button to wake it up, it doesn't respond to keyboard/mouse events). Check out the apm man page for more info.

Hope that helps,
Jason