On 01/02/18 11:51, Michael Fothergill wrote: > > > On 31 January 2018 at 22:46, Richard Hector <rich...@walnut.gen.nz > <mailto: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......
Ah ... well in that case, why not cross-compile on a Windows box? :-) I guess firing up an AWS or Linode or something sounds much too sane (it might even be easier than setting up a local VM, depending where your capabilities lie). Richard
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