On 2018-11-12, Juan Erbes
When I say "the intel microprocessors are buggy and insecure", I refer to this:
I think everyone on this list is aware of the series of speculative execution attacks seen in the past year-or-so. It should be noted that AMD also does speculative execution, and thus was also somewhat vulnerable to SPECTRE and similar attacks (though the speculation wouldn't cross privilege boundaries so it was much less severe). I would argue that "buggy and insecure" is a label that you could apply to most chips made in the past 15 years (if "vulnerable to speculative execution side-channels" is the bar for "buggy and insecure"). While I appreciate the reason why you have a problem with Intel (I get it, for a while it felt they were approaching monopoly-like control over mainstream CPUs), I don't think that presenting it on an openSUSE mailing list is the best place for such discussion. The original topic of the thread (that openSUSE supports AMD chips just as well as Intel ones) has already been resolved. Thank you. -- Aleksa Sarai Senior Software Engineer (Containers) SUSE Linux GmbH https://www.cyphar.com/