Patches for Meltdown and Spectre bugs are coming on January 9 or sooner for Ubuntu 17.10, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 12.04 ESM.

Had a dual boot with windows and Ubuntu and i deleted the ubuntu and now i am unable to boot computer. Anyone has any idea what to do to reboot.

Are AMD Ryzen processors affected?

AMD sais, none of the security problems, INTEL processors (Haswell Xeon and below) have, could be reproduced on new Ryzen. AMD is saying, that only one of three attacks possibly might affect AMD processor: Bounds Check Bypass, Branch Target Injection and Rogue Data Cache Load. Last one is called #Meltdown, first two are called #Spectre.

Only the first one possibly could affect AMD processors and that one is easy to patch. OS vendors will bring a patch very soon, which will not affect Ryzen performance, unlike INTEL solutions, which will cost 30% performance drop.

The last 2 attacks do not affect AMD processors at all due to different internal processor design.

First patch is out!

Wow, that was quick! Linux rules!!!!

https://lwn.net/Articles/743019/

#Spectre #Meltdown

To reduce Intel #Spectre #Meltdown risk

In Google Chrome browser you can activate:

chrome://flags/#enable-site-per-process

to minimize risks. Patched Chrome browser comes out end of January.

#Spectre #Meltdown

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KDE Plasma 5.11.5 desktop is now available for Kubuntu/Ubuntu 17.10 users. Here's how to install it!