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Promises
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Ubuntu 16.04 – Installing the Intel Graphics drivers using the Intel Graphics Installer for Linux™
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The Linksys AE6000 is a nice little wireless AC adapter that you can purchase from places like Fred Meyers or Best Buy. It’s not too expensive for what it offers. The speed is decent too. The problem, once again, comes down to Cisco not offering driver support for Linux. Luckily pintu on HPRATH found a solution and linked to some drivers that you can compile.
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Command line beep using Bash
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Installing Ubuntu 16.04 (Daily) on a Lenovo Yoga 900
Update 2 – 2016-06-13 (see previous update below)
Some have pointed out that this post is well trafficked for installing Ubuntu 16.04 on the Yoga 900. I appreciate this and I hope that this information comes in handy. Please be aware that this post was created for my own reference as well as to help others who might stumble upon it. It’s here so that you can comment below and review the help provided by other generous commenters who are having similar issues. Perhaps they’ll have solved your problem.
I felt it necessary to update this because some people are bringing up new issues that weren’t around when I created this article. Apparently there is a new version of the Yoga 900 which uses an NVMe SSD which may not work well with 16.04.
From user D.S.:
The SSD-problem seems to affect only recent revisions of the device (Yoga 900 13ISK2, 13ISK Business Edition and 12ISK) where the SSD is connected through NVMe.
If you are a lucky owner of the first version of the device (13ISK), you should not have any problems installing Ubuntu 16.04.
If the problem is related to the NVMe drive then there might be some solutions online:
Unable to install GRUB in /dev/nvme
Setting up an NVMe SSD on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (related to 14.04, but information might transfer to 16.04)
Ubuntu 15.10 does not boot on Intel NUC6i3 with Samsung 950 Pro PCIe NVME SSD
Please feel free to comment below or show support to another comment that may have helped you.
Update
The Linux 4.5 kernel fixes the issues in this post. Please follow the instructions in this post to install the latest Linux kernel for Ubuntu. You may read below if you are interested in installing a custom kernel for Ubuntu.
Installing a custom Kernel
The Lenovo Yoga 900 is an ultrabook that is based on the popular Yoga 3, which evolved from the design of the Yoga 2 model. Essentially, the offering between each model are very similar, specifically a touchscreen, convertible format from laptop to tablet, Bluetooth, and a smooth touch pad, to name a few.
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