Ubuntu, the Linux distribution that will have more followers throughout , today reported a failure as a bug in its latest Alpha for the developer team that informs the chipset of Intel 82566 and 82567 could be vulnerable because a data filter may result in kernel 2.6.27-rc.
This failure is limited to e10002 driver, and reports that only occurs on Intel chipsets above. The report indicates that it only affect the laptops, but said that parts of a desktop PC or server are not vulnerable.
In other words: “If you have a laptop (since it is not clear whether the desktop computers are concerned) that use chipsets from Intel 82566 or 82567, DO NOT INSTALL UBUNTU 8.10 ALPHA UNTIL THIS ISSUE IS RESOLVED.”
Fortunately Linux has a large number of distributions such as Fedora, openSUSE, Debian, etc..
