Microsoft disables Spectre mitigations as Intel’s patches cause instability

Re:Microsoft disables Spectre mitigations as Intel’s patches... by speedie on Monday January 29, 2018 @10:39AM (#16258057)

Everyone would have politely installed their "fixes" . This situation shows why linus was swearing .

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Re:Microsoft disables Spectre mitigations as Intel’s patches... by Valmar on Monday January 29, 2018 @10:53AM (#16258166)

Exactly. He's very intelligent about how he manages the kernel, which is precisely why it is preferred by a majority of businesses throughout the world, and is the absolute #1 in the supercomputer world, for the top 500:

https://www.top500.org/statistics/details/osfam/1

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Re:Microsoft disables Spectre mitigations as Intel’s patches... by speedie on Monday January 29, 2018 @10:58AM (#16258192)

I was just pointing out why politeness gets you nowhere when dealing with eejits . Linus improved that Capone's saying about kind word and a gun .

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