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Comment by djaychela | Hacker News Reader

Pleased to see a growing set of links at the bottom for the relevant information for different OSes, etc...

However, somewhat surprised that Ubuntu isn't present - done a fair bit of searching today and have only found that the patches are in progress, which I'm a bit surprised about given the disclosure timeline that appears to be in place, and that SuSE and Red Hat seem to have patches in place and ready to go?

* EDIT * - since posting this, there is now an Ubuntu link present, and an explanation that they were expecting disclosure on Jan 9th.

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The linked entry states:

The original coordinated disclosure date was planned for January 9 and we have been driving toward that date to release fixes. Due to the early disclosure, we are trying to accelerate the release, but we don't yet have an earlier ETA when the updates will be released. We will release Ubuntu Security Notices when the updates are available.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SecurityTeam/KnowledgeBase/SpectreAn...

Status page for the fix.

Suse Enterprise and Red Hat Enterprise had no problems to release updates for their Kernels.

That is a little surprising. Definitely making me re-evaluate my choice of local Linux.

This was supposed to release on January 9th, but Google pulled the trigger earlier due to community members putting the pieces together and starting to draw press attention. It isn't very fair to blame Ubuntu for being behind.

It’s not just that. I’ve been experimenting with different distros a lot this year (Fedora, Mint and Ubuntu for committed stretches) and Fedora is the only one where the machine didn’t regularly hang for some reason after a few days. Was happening multiple times a day with Ubuntu and currently much less often with Mint. Never happened at all with Fedora though.

Between that at Redhats promptness on this it’s just giving me more confidence in that side of the house.

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