On Tue, 05 Dec 2000 23:39:21 Larry Tobos wrote: > TRY > > uname -a > > it should print the name of the system, > It just prints the name that the packager put in the kernel Makefile. And it usually is consistent with the name of the package. For example, take mandrake. Ship the 2.2.17 kernel. It is named 2.2.17-1mdk. They add reiserfs. It becomes 2.2.17-2mdk. After a while they upgrade it up to standard 2.2.18-pre15. But it is named 2.2.17-3mdk. In the case they consider that all the patches introduced in pre15 are valid. Perhaps even they do a partial-pre15 (we trust this one, but not that other). That is a thing that makes me nervous. With distros kernels one never knows what has installed. So i prefer to get the standard kernel and patch. -- Juan Antonio Magallon Lacarta #> cd /pub mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] #> more beer Linux 2.2.18-pre24-vm #2 SMP Wed Nov 29 02:56:21 CET 2000 i686 unknown
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