[newman314]

Just watching Ubuntu's response to Meltdown/Spectre has been painful.

Spectre patched kernels were only just released into -proposed in the last day or so.

[tooltalk]

doesn't seem like Ubuntu is all that behind.

Ubuntu Meltdown: Jan 10 Spectre: Jan 11

[newman314]

Spectre for 16.04 LTS only landed in -proposed on Jan 16th. It's still not available for general consumption.