On Wednesday 2009 January 14 11:18:31 Kent West wrote: >It used to be that the kernels were named something like >"kernel-image-2.6.24...". In Sarge and before, IIRC. >Four questions: > >1. Why the change from "kernel-image..." to "linux-image..."? While Linux is a kernel, not all kernels are Linux. In particular there are unfinished ports of Debian to kFreeBSD and GNU HURD, they would provide a package named like freebsd-kernel-image... or hurd-image... >2. What is "-xen" and "-vserver" and what happened to just plain "-686" >with the 2.6.18 and 2.6.24 kernels? -xen kernels have support for running as a dom0 under the Xen hypervisor. -vserver kernels are similar for VServer technology, but I'm not familiar with it. What do you mean "What happened"? Based on your listing there is a -686 for each kernel version that has a -xen (e.g.). >3. How can I tell my aptitude-search command to list wider columns to >see the entire name. IIRC, pipe it to cat; when stdout isn't a terminal it ignores the COLUMNS environment variable. >4. What's the difference between, say, "linux-image-2.6" and >"linux-image-2.6-686" and "linux-image-2.6.18-6-686"? linux-image-2.6 is an empty package that depends on "the latest" linux-image-2.6.*-* package. linux-image-2.6-686 is similar but requires a *-686 package. linux-image-2.6.18-6-686 package contains version 2.6.18 of the Linux kernel, Debian revision 6, compiled for 686 and better processors. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. bss@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/
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