Canonical pulls Ubuntu update after BIOS corruption issue affecting laptops
Canonical points finger of blame at Intel for a shonky set of drivers incorporated into the Linux kernel
Canonical has pulled the release of its Ubuntu 17.10 distribution of Linux after many users found that the release had corrupted the BIOS on their laptops. According to technology blog Phoronix, the...
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