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