On 01/02/18 11:20, Michael Fothergill wrote: > As it turns out I have installed debian on a usb before and booted it up > successfully. > It did occur to me that you could advise the new users to buy a > raspberry pi computer > and use that to run sid and then install the kernel on my from it. > > Then I would have one machine which apparently cannot be infected with > meltdown and spectre > with both sid and the spectre enabled kernel on it (raspberry pi) due > its architecture
A complicated and expensive solution. The Pi being a different architecture means you'd need to take extra steps to cross-compile the kernel. A virtual machine, chroot, container or whatever is much cheaper and simpler. Richard
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