On Thu, 2020-05-28 at 16:15 -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote:
>
> I'm on
> 4.9.0-6-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.88-1+deb9u1 (2018-05-07) x86_64
> GNU/Linux
> from the beowulf repository; but then I'm running beowulf for quite
> a
> while now.
> I can't say I understand the version numbers -- both 4.9.0-6 and
> 4.9.88?
>
> -- hendrik
Just found that out today. According to the uname manpage, one's the
release and one's the version of the kernel. I'll have to pay more
attention to upgrades and see which changes more often as I'm not sure.
>From uname manpage:
-r, --kernel-release
print the kernel release
-v, --kernel-version
print the kernel version