On 31 January 2018 at 22:46, Richard Hector <rich...@walnut.gen.nz> wrote:

> 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.
>

​I agree.  It's much a better idea.  But we were actively trying to be dumb
in these exchanges for a bit of fun......

Cheers

​MF​
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