SoylentNews first reported the vulnerabilities on January 3. Since then, we have had a few stories addressing different reports about these vulnerabilities. Now that it is over two weeks later and we are *still* dealing with reboots, I am curious as to what our community's experience has been.
What steps have you taken, if any, to deal with these reports? Be utterly proactive and install every next thing that comes along? Do a constrained roll out to test a system or two before pushing out to other systems? Wait for the dust to settle before taking any steps?
What providers (system/os/motherboard/chip) have been especially helpful... or non-helpful? How has their response affected your view of that company?
What resources have you been using to check on the status of fixes for your systems? Have you found a site that stands above the others in timeliness and accuracy?
How has this affected your purchasing plans... and your expectations on what you could get for selling your old system? Are you now holding off on purchasing something new?
(Score: 2) by frojack on Friday January 19 2018, @06:33PM
Are you sure? I'm not.
For better than a decade, there has been no operational difference in the server world between competitive AMD vs Intel chips.
There hasn't been any reason, other than price, to choose one over the other. There's really not much reason not to choose ARM for server platforms, where there exist competitive models.
If you have a warehouse sized rack room, and you build one image and impose it on a couple thousand servers, maybe you want them all the same, but even that sounds fictitious.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.