Is Ubuntu Linux protected against the Meltdown and Spectre security flaws?

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Fri, 2 Mar 2018 05:40:24 +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
>On 02/03/2018, Ralf Mardorf <silver.bullet at zoho.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, 1 Mar 2018 21:23:03 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:  
>>>The old KAISER and now the KPTI Linux patch sets, as well as the
>>>microcode, aka firmware, do not fix those issues, they "mitigate" the
>>>vulnerabilities.  
>>
>> I'm running an Ubuntu session right now.
>>
>> [weremouse at moonstudio ~]$ lsb_release -rc
>>  
>
>Is a weremouse like a wererabbit?

At least wererabbits, as well as weremice have concerns about the name
change from "qupzilla" to "falkon". What's the developers intention? A
rodent pogrom? FWIW http://xffm.org/ existed a long time before bloated
DE's introduced opaque lukewarm "GUI CLI combination apps".