From: The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm>
To: Debian-user List <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2014 8:51 PM
Subject: Re: What is the difference between linux-image-amd64 and
linux-image-3.2.0.4-amd64?
> linux-image-amd64 depends on whatever the latest-in-Debian AMD64 version of the Linux kernel is. If you install this package from Debian stable,
> you will currently get kernel 3.2.0.4, but when version 3.3 or newer becomes available from the repositories your package manager will
> automatically pull in that version instead.
Thanks for taking the time to answer my question at length.
How likely, do you think, is Debian to release version 3.3? Debian 7 has linux-image-3.2 since its official release. The next stable release, Debian 8, may happen in May 2015.