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When Linux goes bad: the e1000e Ethernet bug

blogs.computerworld.com — Yes, sometimes, bad things can happen in Linux too. Here's the latest major bug. It exists only in test Linux distributions using the 2.6.27 pre-release kernels.

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  • daddymcguire, on 09/30/2008, -0/+3Cretin? Really??

    So if someone shouts out a warning about what a pre-release bit of software can do that means the doors are wide open to fling insults? And how did you bridge the flaw in this linux kernel to bashing Microsoft?
  • neowolfwitch, on 09/30/2008, -0/+2The real bad thing is the hardware actually allows a driver to do this in the first place.
  • miggols99, on 09/30/2008, -0/+2A bug in the development version? Nothing special. I'm sure the pre-releases of Windows 7 have bugs too...that's why they're called pre-releases.
  • gavcomedy, on 09/29/2008, -6/+0pre release for a reason you cretin --------- windwos has bugs in released software --- bah microsft has been obsolete for 5 years at least ---- no one needs it --------- if someone coems out with a linux powered gaem console by by

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