Re: Whats the difference

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Subject: Re: Whats the difference
From: Jon Dowland <lists@alcopop.org>
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 09:52:42 +0000
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[posted to debian-user-digest rather than debian-user?]

On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 11:33:48AM +0200, Brent Clark wrote:
> linux-image-2.6.15-1-686
> kernel-image-2.6.8-2-686

> So I basically would like to know whats the difference (apart from the
> version numbers obviously).

I think that the linux kernel packages have moved to the former name
scheme so alternative kernels (when feasible, e.g. the FreeBSD one,
HURD, etc.) do not clash.

-- 
Jon Dowland
http://alcopop.org/

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