I don't prefer my laptop to switch to suspend state when my laptop lid is closed. So I found an easy way to disable suspend when lid is close. Here is how is it done:

• Open Terminal
• type in the command below (as root)

sudo gedit /etc/systemd/logind.conf

• Now the logind.conf file will ope...

Linux Kernel 3.9.2 this is the second release of the Linux Kernel 3.9 and here are some changes in this latest release taken from the changelog of Linux 3.9.2:

• drm/gma500: fix backlight hotkeys behaviour on netbooks

• PCI: Delay final fixups until resources are assigned

• Btrfs: fix...

Linux Kernel 3.9.1brings various bug fixes and improvements. Here are some of them as shown in the changelog:

• ext4: fix Kconfig documentation for CONFIG_EXT4_DEBUG
• ext4: fix online resizing for ext3-compat file systems
• ixgbe: fix EICR write in ixgbe_msix_other
• wireless: regulatory: fix ...

Debian GNU/Linux 7.0, a new stable version of the world’s largest Linux distribution, has been released: “After many months of constant development, the Debian project is proud to present its new stable version 7.0. This new version of Debian includes various interesting features such as multiarch s...

A stable version of Linux Kernel 3.9 is now out, and can be installed by the following steps on you ARM powered device, try this at your own risk. You can find the release announcement here. In this tutorial, we will see how to install Linux kernel 3.9 in Ubuntu for ARM or any Debian based ARM s...

Update: You might want to get Linux Kernel 3.10 for your Ubuntu or Linux Mint, since it is out now. Click here for Kernel 3.10. A stable version of Linux Kernel 3.9 has been released recently which brings more new features such as SSD caching, full support for Chrome OS, better support for ARM...