On Mon, 7 Nov 2011, Akemi Yagi wrote:
On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 3:10 PM, Ken Teh <[email protected]> wrote:
I want to confirm the following assumptions I have about the kernel versi=
on
numbers obtained with 'uname -r'
That, with each release, the version is 2.6.x-<blah-blah-blah> where x is
fixed for a given release. For instance SL5.x is always 2.6.18 while SL6.=
x
is always 2.6.32. =A0The series of numbers that follow the hyphen is some
other beastie that is part of the distro and not the original kernel vers=
ion
that Linus releases.
Note that even though this might be 2.6.32 or 2.6.18 it does not mean it
is as Linus releases . TUV puts in many "back ported" features/patches
from "future" kernels.
>
Yes, that is correct.
Akemi
-Connie Sieh
