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Ubuntu alpha apparently breaking hardware, shattering dreams

engadget.com — Well, it looks like the good times that are the Ubuntu alpha testing process hit a bit of a snag recently, as one of the latest kernels apparently had the nasty side effect of irreparably damaging some users' hardware -- specifically, certain Intel network cards.

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  • motang, on 09/28/2008, -0/+1Haha...it's not just Ubuntu, this will be the same issue with any distro that is based on that particular Linux kernel.
  • neowolfwitch, on 09/26/2008, -1/+2Bad title! This is a problem with an alpha kernel that affects several pre-release Linux distributions. Read the comments in the linked article.

    It's almost like people in the Linux world want to jump on Ubuntu almost as much as people want to jump on Microsoft sometimes.

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