[GTALUG] Intel Meltdown Bug -- Conundrum For New Desktop PC Build Spec (to run debian Linux) -- Switch From Intel CPU To AMD CPU ??

[David Collier-Brown]

On 09/01/18 12:23 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:
> In fact, the first news broke because an AMD patch to the kernel
> spilled the beans.  The AMD patch turned off the already present
> mitigation for Meltdown in the case of AMD processors.
> -

Erk!  Can you point us to a description this? It seem slightly pessimal 
(;-))

--dave

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