Re: kernel naming conventions?
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 11:18:31 -0600, Kent West (westk@acu.edu) wrote:
> westk[@]goshen]:/home/westk:> sudo aptitude search linux-image | grep
> 2.6
No need for sudo or su for aptitude search.
> Four questions:
>
> 1. Why the change from "kernel-image..." to "linux-image..."?
This happened a long time ago. Maybe Debian can be run on non-linux
kernels somewhere?
> 2. What is "-xen" and "-vserver" and what happened to just plain "-686"
> with the 2.6.18 and 2.6.24 kernels?
Support for these presumably:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xen
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux-VServer
> 3. How can I tell my aptitude-search command to list wider columns to
> see the entire name. Since I can't see the entire name, I tried
> "aptitude show linux-image-2.6.24-etchnhalf.*" to get more details on
> these, but the command spit up blood all over my new shirt instead of
> doing what I expected.
Try your search with --disable-columns
so it looks like this:
aptitude --disable-columns search linux-image | grep 2.6
> 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"? I understand the
> last one is a specific version of the 2.6.18 kernel (the 6th sub-variant
> of the 2.6.18 kernel compiled for i686 machines?), but is the 2.6-686
> the 1st version of the i686 kernel, or something else?
apt-cache show linux-image-2.6 linux-image-2.6-686 linux-image-2.6.18-6-686
should explain things.
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