Comments on: 25 years of Linux in 5 minutes https://gregladen.com/blog/2018/01/23/25-years-linux-5-minutes/ Thu, 25 Jan 2018 18:35:13 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: dhogaza https://gregladen.com/blog/2018/01/23/25-years-linux-5-minutes/#comment-564797 Thu, 25 Jan 2018 18:35:13 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=28745#comment-564797 They’re not spot on, and the person he’s screaming at gives a long, in-depth analysis of the proposed linux patches in the context of the intel microcode patches which are meant as a workaround.

This post in the thread, in particular, is informative (and the author gets props for not responding for Linus’s earlier baiting and name calling):

http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1801.2/05282.html

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2018/01/23/25-years-linux-5-minutes/#comment-564712 Wed, 24 Jan 2018 22:25:33 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=28745#comment-564712 In reply to dean.

I have no way of evaluating his comments, but I would not be surprised if they were spot on.

]]> By: dean https://gregladen.com/blog/2018/01/23/25-years-linux-5-minutes/#comment-564709 Wed, 24 Jan 2018 22:11:32 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=28745#comment-564709 What’s your take on Torvald’s typically blunt assessment of Intel’s “fix” for the Spectre/Meltdown issues?

I’m not enough of a chip person (as in, not at all) to know whether it is, as he described it, complete and utter garbage.

On the other hand, I seem to be in the minority when I say I don’t think they are serious issues for single-use machines: the chance of someone using it and getting lucky enough that something important is exposed at just the right time is so low it isn’t worth their effort. I realize servers are a different story.

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