Is Ubuntu Linux protected against the Meltdown and Spectre security flaws?

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Fri, 2 Mar 2018 21:58:59 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>On Fri, 2 Mar 2018 05:40:24 +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
>>On 02/03/2018, Ralf Mardorf <silver.bullet at zoho.com> wrote:  
>>> On Thu, 1 Mar 2018 21:23:03 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:    
>>>>The old KAISER and now the KPTI Linux patch sets, as well as the
>>>>microcode, aka firmware, do not fix those issues, they "mitigate"
>>>>the vulnerabilities.    
>>>
>>> I'm running an Ubuntu session right now.
>>>
>>> [weremouse at moonstudio ~]$ lsb_release -rc
>>>    
>>
>>Is a weremouse like a wererabbit?  
>
>At least wererabbits, as well as weremice have concerns about the name
>change from "qupzilla" to "falkon". What's the developers intention? A
>rodent pogrom? FWIW http://xffm.org/ existed a long time before bloated
>DE's introduced opaque lukewarm "GUI CLI combination apps".

PS: "Rabbits, hares, and pikas are sometimes called rodents, because
they also have teeth that keep growing. But in 1912 biologists decided
to put them in a new, separate order, Lagomorpha, because they have two
extra incisors in their upper jaw." -
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodent

Yes, and Pluto isn't a planet. ;).