Re: kernel naming conventions?
Just one more querry I installed the i386 netinstall etch same kernel
as below but uname -all shows i686. Care to elaborate?
-----Original Message-----
From: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <bss@iguanasuicide.net>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Sent: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 4:41 am
Subject: Re: kernel naming conventions?
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.
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