Canonical Will Soon Patch all Supported Ubuntu Releases Against Meltdown/Spectre

Share
  • Post Updated: April 3, 2024

After Red Hat and SUSE, now it’s Canonical’s turn to respond to the Meltdown and Spectre hardware bugs that affect billions of hardware device.

According to Canonical’s Dustin Kirkland, Ubuntu Security Team worked hard over the past two months to test and integrate what they called one of the most complex sets of patches into the kernel packages used by all supported Ubuntu Linux releases, including Ubuntu 12.04 ESM (Extended Security Maintenance), Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 17.10, to protect them aginst the <a href="http://news.softpedia.com/news/billions-of-devices-at-… (read more)

Remember to like our facebook and our twitter @ubuntufree for a chance to win a free Ubuntu laptop by Dell or HP!

Top Trending Pages: Ubuntu Downloads | Ubuntu How To Guide | Download Ubuntu Software | Share Ubuntu Files With Windows