On Tuesday, September 16, 2003 6:06 PM [GMT+0800],
Arindam Dey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> (Shamelessly stolen from RH Manual)
> 5.2.30. /proc/version
> This file specifies the version of the Linux kernel and gcc in use, as
> well as the version of Red Hat Linux installed on the system.
>
> Note to Ghane - Correction to my earlier mail. According to the manual
> it also specifies the RH version running on the system.Although I
> could not figure out how RHL 3.2.2-5 translates to RH 9 from the
> below output
I still think this is the version of Redhat/gcc the kernel was _compiled_
on, not the version the kernel is running. For me, I get:
esyssg:~# gcc --version
2.95.4
esyssg:~# cat /proc/version
Linux version 2.4.20 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.95.4 20011002 (Debian
prerelease)) #5 Fri Jan 31 14:13:27 SGT 2003
> Linux version 2.4.20-20.9 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc
> version 3.2.2 20030222 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.2-5)) #1 Mon
> Aug 18 11:45:58 EDT 2003
gcc version 3.2.2-5
> Although older version in this case RH 7.2 (ignore kernel version)
> does at least state something close albeit it says 7.1 on my PC dunno
> why though.
>
> Linux version 2.4.20-1 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.96
> 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.1 2.96-98)) #1 Thu Sep 11 16:06:45 MYT 2003
gcc 2.96-98. The kernel may have been compiled on RH 7.1.
Ho hum. There are more problems than just this. Please bear with me:
What is the definition of "distribution"? If I boot from an RH9 CD, then
install the xmms-mpeg rpms, and replace others from -mdk, what distribution
am I running? If I uninstall the RH9 sendmail, apache, mysql, perl, and
install newer versions from source in /usr/local, am I still running RH9?
RH at all? Even if I have symlinked /usr/doc to /usr/share/doc, and prefer
BSD-style rc scripts in /etc/rc? Of course I re-compiled the kernel using
patches from NSA. What is the distribution now? Oh, and btw, I don't like
Blue Curve, so I copied over /use/lib/kde/preferences from SuSE, which has a
nicer set of themes? For most of the stuff that is still from the RH CD, I
pulled the SRPMs and re-compiled them for i686. And I changed /etc/issue to
be k3w1. I hate the "one group per user" concept.
What distribution am I running now? At one point do you say:
This is ghane playing around with RedHat
and at what point do you say:
Mandrake is a RH-based distribution?
--
Sanjeev
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