[ale] News: Red Hat slams into reverse on CPU fix for Spectre design blunder

[Beddingfield, Allen]

So, my question at this point:
We haven't heard anything similar out of SUSE, and I haven't heard of 
anything in the Debian/Ubuntu world?  Are we to assume we are "good" if 
we have SUSE and Debian/Ubuntu systems patched up, and that it is just 
the RHEL world that can't get their act together?  It seems to me that 
we are likely to hear a "me too" out of the other vendors following Red 
Hat's announcement.  Thoughts?  I'm going to pose the same question to a 
SUSE heavy audience, see what I get, and report back . . .

Allen B.

On 1/18/18 7:23 AM, DJ-Pfulio via Ale wrote:
> Red Hat slams into reverse on CPU fix for Spectre design blunder
> 
> https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/18/red_hat_spectre_firmware_update_woes/
> 
> Be careful out there.
> 
> Anyone seen system instabilities from the different layers of patches?
> 
> I've delayed patching the last few weeks to let others find most of the
> issues first. ;)
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