Re: Kernel date stamp?
Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> wrote:
> On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 11:10:13AM -0400, Danny O'Brien wrote:
>> We updated the kernel this weekend using apt-get update followed by
>> apt-get <kernel ver>. However, uname-a delivers the following response:
>>
>> Linux mail 2.4.18-686 #1 Sun Apr 14 11:32:47 EST 2002 i686 unknown
>>
>> Why is this kernel dated April, 2002? Is this the most recent version?
>
> That's the build date. Remember that the last stable release was
> released in July 2002 ...
>
There are more recent builds (with security patches applied) that are
in the security archives, or you can use make-kpkg to compile more
recent kernel *versions* (see www.kernel.org for the current versions)
from sources.
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