>>> On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 3:47 PM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Clark, Douglas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am reading an article in the Oct 22, 2007 edition of InformationWeek > titled "The Relentless Pace of Linux" on page 43. The article makes a > reference to "Kernel 2.6.23" and I am trying to make some sense of that > identification to what I am running. > > On my server running SLES 9 i386 when I issue a "uname -r" command the > following is returned "2.6.5-7.287.3-default." > When I issue the same "uname -r" command on the mainframe LPAR I receive > the following "2.6.5-7.287.3-s390x." > > How do those versions map back to the statement "Kernel 2.6.23?"
On RPM-managed Linux systems, the names are of the form pkgname-pkgversion-rpmversion-arch.rpm So, in the examples you have, the kernel packages on the two systems are kernel version 2.6.5, RPM package build 7.287.3. I think the -default is a hold over from a previous practice of defining -default, -smp, -bigsmp, and things like that, but I'm not 100% sure. Mark Post ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
