This calls for an LWN article

Posted Jan 18, 2018 13:59 UTC (Thu) by Wol (subscriber, #4433)
In reply to: This calls for an LWN article by davecb
Parent article: A look at the handling of Meltdown and Spectre

But how many of them have "nothing" to do with the linux community?

In quotes because of course there's some interaction, but why would for example Microsoft concern itself with how Linux handles vulnerabilities?

The problem, as *so* *often* is the case, is that when the needs suddenly scale dramatically, the infrastructure can't respond and scale similarly. No blame to anyone, that's just reality doing what reality does ...

Cheers,
Wol

This calls for an LWN article

Posted Jan 19, 2018 16:02 UTC (Fri) by millenix (guest, #39711) [Link]

Microsoft Azure hosts a whole lot of Linux VMs - they have exactly the same exposure as Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud Engine here.