Meh, what difference does it really make? If anything, I'm glad. Having high quality hardware allowed a lot of shops to try to justify buying something that was fundamentally wrong for an unrelated reason.
Server is Lenovo RD640
o/s: Fedora 27
installed kernel: 4.13.9.300
Tried upgrading to 4.14.8-300...the system gets to the grub screen where I can see both available kernels...screen goes black...after waiting a few minutes, I ctrl-alt-del, reboot, choose 4.14..9-300
Anyone have a Lenovo server with upgraded kernel?
I've experienced the boot issue while using 4.14.11, I had to turn off Kernel Page Table Isolation (KPTI).
What flavor of hardware?
On my very old lab server running Hyper-V 2012 R2.
Hardware: PowerEdge 2950
CPU: Intel Xeon E5430
VM: Fedora 27
I wonder how many posts we will see elsewhere about how there was no Superfish and Lenovo fixed all that, or it was only consumer machines or other made up stuff.
I doubt that it will or should gain any traction.
Have you seen people's reactions to this since the 2015 announcement? They've got lot's of traction in the marketplace. on SW.
There, FTFY.
It's not just over on SW tho. Of course, I have to wonder what % of SW add sales are Lenovo. Probably a reason so many of my anti Lenovo posts have disappeared without any notification.
I'd like to see recent references; everything I have found hasn't been updated / linked to since 2019 about the 2014-2015 incident.
What has changed? Nothing.
Why should anyone keep reporting no news?
Exactly - There's nothing newer because they haven't been caught doing any dirty shit in the past 2-3 years. But at the same time - the same management is in charge, so why would we expect them to do things right?
I think that they've been caught. It's just so unimportant to American consumers if Chinese companies are spying on them that literally reporting it has no value.
Dominica's Lenovo crashed hard tonight. That thing with Win 10 crashed like once a month. Asus with Ubuntu, never.
Where you still using the WiFi card that came with it? It was totally worth the $65 investment in a third party card for my Yoga. After that - all problems just gone!
I had a similar problem with a Lenovo laptop (again purchased before SuperFish). The user finally agreed to have me send it for service, no issues reported since then. It clearly had a hardware problem as I rebuild the OS at least twice before sending in for service.
I had to laugh about it. Last year I got dinged for not blocking github and the similar sites. This time they tell me I can go on github and get a piece of software that will compare my firewall config and detect any changes. The logic makes ZERO sense.
audiors are allowed to make up any damned rules they want. it's just nutz.
But companies are alllowed to hire any auditors that they want.
I'm curious, what percentage is sold in first world countries versus the rest of the world.
Yes, very good question. The percentages that I have seen are judged on "units shipped" not the amount of money spent on them. As Lenovo completely dominates the Chinese market, I am assuming that a major percentage of those units are sold there. I am also guessing that at least a fair percentage of their sales are very low cost devices. I know that they make Chromebooks and some entry level stuff even for the US market. They might be selling a fraction of the PCs by cost, even if leading in per unit volume.
It's amazing how many of these bloatware security issues have come up in the past two weeks since we had the comment made of "is removing bloatware worth it" in that one thread. 🙂
Of course I visited the Lenovo table while at SpiceWorld to get my card punched.... so they called/emailed me afterwards.
I wrote them a nicely composed email indicating that in light of the several points of consumer privacy related issues with their systems, I could never buy or recommend their equipment again.
I was really hoping for some sort of response, but sadly I didn't get one.
SuperMicro is beginning to make the lines between Tier 1 and Tier 2 blurry as they increase their level of engineering on their products and begin to offer more and more enterprise class support for their products.
