Comment 18 for bug 263555

>http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/intrepid/alpha6

No warning

>http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/intrepid/alpha-6/

No warning

>http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/intrepid/alpha-6/intrepid-desktop-i386.iso

Download works.

How many people test these iso's? How many of them are using an intel motherboard? (10%-40% ?)
How many will ever test again if testing an ISO means you are frying your motherboard.

This isn't a blame game. But if top priority is not removing the alpha, it will very soon be...

We are talking about thousands, if not millions, of laptops and pc's that will be broken beyond repair, if I'm not mistaken...

And some people actually say things like:

>Jeffrey, we can't afford to do that; we need to be able to test with the Alpha CDs on the wide variety of hardware not affected by this bug,

Don't you get it. If you don't pull now, NOBODY WILL TEST THE NEXT VERSION.
There will be no NEXT VERSION because nobody DARES to install it.

>It's alpha software, people should be considered as being aware that using it might break stuff.

Yes, it may corrupt data. [but if it does that beyond its own partition; it should be a big issue as well]
But BREAKING hardware?

I'm quite sure that afterwards some quality control and reflection .. that there will be SOME policy to prevent these mistakes (NOT TAKING THE IMAGE DOWN) ..

But it will be too late.

PULL THE IMAGE: THEN DISCUSS!