Foxconn owns up to dodgy BIOS crippling Linux

Courtesy Topix - Linux  Tue, 07/29/2008 - 17:00

The other day I blogged about how the Foxconn G33M-S motherboard didn't play nicely with Linux because it broke ACPI support .


 

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