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Linus Torvalds reply about Meltdown and Spectre.
Post 303012272 by dodona on Thursday 1st of February 2018 03:41:01 PM
02-01-2018
I read that with the 4.15 Kernel with build-in patches for the hypothetical problem comes with 15-30% performance loss. Immediately I thought 'wow, Intel, AMD and the hardware pushers will earn a lot of $'. I mean todays cpu is so fast that there isn't a need for a upgrade. However the hypothetical problem with the 15-30% performance loss is the need for an upgrade
. Again everything comes down to $, and nothing else than $.
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selinux-policy-upgrade
selinux-policy-upgrade(8) System Manager's Manual selinux-policy-upgrade(8) NAME
selinux-policy-upgrade - upgrade the modules in the SE Linux policy database from a policy package SYNOPSIS
selinux-policy-upgrade DESCRIPTION
selinux-policy-upgrade this command will upgrade all policy modules (including the base modules) for to the versions that are under /usr/share/selinux/SELINUXTYPE SEE ALSO
selinux(8), sestatus(8), selinuxenabled(1), load_policy(8), semodule(8), postfix-nochroot(8), check-selinux-installation(8), selinux-con- fig-enforcing(8), http://wiki.debian.org/SELinux - More about SELinux Debian install, http://etbe.coker.com.au/tag/selinux/ - Russell's SE Linux blog posts. AUTHOR
This program and it's man page was written by Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au> for the Debian system (but may be used by others). Per- mission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 3. On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-3. selinux-policy-upgrade(8)