[geeks] Ubuntu on Intel graphics

Phil Stracchino alaric at metrocast.net
Sun Feb 28 14:26:27 CST 2010


On 02/28/10 14:46, gsm at mendelson.com wrote:
> By the
> time it was noticed that the defective kernel was included in what was to
> become the release (2 or 3 days past the deadline), it was decided that 
> enforcing the deadline was more important than releasing a system that
> would not boot on many machines, and more importantly, not to include
> a warning that if you did not have the right processor, to wait for
> an update before you installed it and had an unbootable system.

Capital FAIL.


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