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posted by cmn32480 on Tuesday December 26 2017, @08:06AM   Printer-friendly
from the things-that-make-your-laptop-go-BOOM dept.

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


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  • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday December 27 2017, @03:28AM

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Wednesday December 27 2017, @03:28AM (#614587) Journal

    There's something about Debian, and therefore Devuan, that just really puts me off about it. The package manager output is ugly as sin, apt at the commandline is flabby and ugly and verbose, things feel like they take way too long, and there's the same weird feeling of "We know what's best" I get from a vanilla Gnome 3 desktop. It's hard to pin down.

    I like Devuan okay and it feels subjectively snappier than vanilla Debian, but with Void around, why would I use anything else? Void was a revelation; it made me feel the way Gentoo did all those long years ago, that one summer night in 2004 when I first began using Linux.

    Good catch noticing they're all systemd-free, too; I don't actually mind *using* systemd as an end-user, but I hate the politics of it and have had a few real wallbanger moments on servers running it.

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