[lug] Kernel numbering

Jonathan Corbet corbet-bldrlug at lwn.net
Wed Feb 13 17:52:40 MST 2008


Jeffrey Haemer <jeffrey.haemer at gmail.com> wrote:

> $ uname -r
> 2.6.22-14-generic
> 
> I understand the "2.6.22" but what's the "-14-generic" part?

That's the package revision ID as supplied by your distributor.  What
you have will be the distributor's 14th version of that particular
2.6.22 package.

jon



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