Amazing! I’m thinking of building a 32bit ISO as well actually, but was wondering if you’ve got any tips for that .

Thank you in advance!

@jasondgls said in Speck Modules in the Kernel:

Anyways, I personally believe that these type of modules must be removed from the kernel ASAP or disabled by default. We cannot trust these corporate jack doodles with anything these days. Especially with our freedom!

My thoughts exactly! I do hope they remove it. But just disabling it would be enough, or maybe a compromise that leaves everyone unhappy - just like any good compromise would

Yay!!! Looks like Speck will be REMOVED from future kernel releases . Here’s the link where I found that: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1808.0/05226.html

So that’s a relief for sure!

Here’s a link to more info @fernandomaroto

https://itsfoss.com/nsas-encryption-algorithm-in-linux-kernel-is-creating-unease-in-the-community/

As for my thoughts, well, this isn’t a good sign. However, the good news is this module can be blacklisted easily, which is what all future Reborn ISOs will do by default I think. So not ideal but at least the kernel devs left us with the ability to disable this thing!

Wow! Never heard of ratpoison before . Going to have to give it a try I think…

Hmmm… I’ve used Min before, and really enjoyed it. However, as for others, I don’t know. Wish I could be more helpful, but I’m as interested to see what alternatives and options there might be as you are here .

I’ll keep up the search! I’m off for a trip this week, but next week I’ll check back into this for sure .

All hope’s not lost yet!

Thanks! That’s good to know then

Silly me. I should have realized that you weren’t using a touchpad like I am on my laptop . I don’t know of any other “great” ideas offhand, but I can certainly look into it! And thank you so much for the warning concerning the future. I was wondering why it wasn’t working on KDE, and now I think I know.

Thanks again!

Yes! Here’s the command to do so (I found it a month ago as I was thinking the same thing you are now, but it took a LOT of digging! I’m so glad this information might finally prove useful to someone else )

synclient MinSpeed=14

Just change the number there according to your desired speed. To make it faster, us a higher number. To make it slower, use a lower number.

Hope this helps!