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Scary Linux Distro Eats Hard Drives Like Candy!!!

Posted on October 31, 2007 by Michael Froomkin

Ubuntu may be dramatically shortening the life of your laptop's hard drive. (But you can work around the bug.)

Speaking of Scary Linux Distributions….

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