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https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/12/21/ubuntu_lenovo_bios/
Updated Canonical has halted downloads of Ubuntu Linux 17.10, aka Artful Aardvark, from its website after punters complained installing the open-source OS on laptops knackered the machines.
Specifically, the desktop flavor of Artful Aardvark, released in October, has been temporarily pulled – the server builds and other editions remain available. A corrected version of 17.10 for desktops is due to be released soon.
"The download of Ubuntu 17.10 is currently discouraged due to an issue on certain Lenovo laptops," the Linux distro maker noted this week on its desktop download page. "Once fixed this download will be enabled again."
Installing 17.10 on Lenovo Yoga and IdeaPad laptops prevents the motherboard's BIOS from saving its settings, and while the computer will hopefully continue to start up, it potentially stops the machine from booting via USB.
The cockup mainly affects Lenovo computers, although other systems may also fall foul: selected Acer, HP, Toshiba and Dell hardware are said to be hit, too.
A fault report on Canonical's bug tracker tells it all – apparently, Artful Aardvark's Linux kernel includes an Intel SPI driver that was not ready for release
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 26 2017, @11:42AM (1 child)
Amusing, as they really should have said Ubuntu fanbois...but El Reg has been becoming noticeably more 'tabloid' in it's approach to stories over the past couple of years and flame-baiting articles are sadly normal there, the title of TFA Ubuntu 17.10 PULLED: Linux OS knackers laptop BIOSes, Intel kernel driver fingered sort of implies that it is a Linux wide issue, as opposed to a Ubuntu specific one, still, at least they had the decency to add an update on TFA after getting in touch with Intel, where a spokesdrone muttered
"This is a unique issue based on non-Intel recommended changes made to the BIOS configurations by Ubuntu."
Which does somewhat also beg the question, who recommended these changes (seeing as it wasn't Intel) and why?
(Not that this little drama bothers me, Ubuntu I wouldn't touch with the proverbial 10ft barge-pole, and in my 24 years of Linux support/abuse/whatever I have only ever installed it once to demonstrate to a PHB that it wasn't in any way different to the Linux distribution we were using on our systems without issues..in the vernacular, Ubuntu is all fur coat and no knickers..)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 27 2017, @03:15AM
NO.
It asks the question.
It poses the question.
It presents the question.
It does NOT beg the question.
"Windoze is the most secure operating system." (No evidence presented.)
Later:
"So, as Microsoft makes the most secure operating system..."
THAT is begging the question. [wikipedia.org]
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