[ubuntu-uk] dapper kernel source

Alan Pope alan at popey.com
Wed Feb 14 12:17:25 GMT 2007


On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 11:35:08AM +0000, Robert McWilliam wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 10:21:25 +0000
> Robert McWilliam <rmcw at allmail.net> wrote:
> > On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 23:12:27 +0000
> > Alan Pope <alan at popey.com> wrote:
> > > > kernel-* is 2.4
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > Not quite. Those are Debian kernels, Ubuntu ones are called linux*,
> > > Debian kernels (of any version) are all called kernel-*.
> > > 
> > 
> > No, they're not:
> > http://packages.debian.org/unstable/admin/linux-image-2.6-686
> 
> Looks like debian has moved from kernel- to linux- for
> etch, was ubutu using linux- before sarge moved to stable?
> 

Yes. Which is why I said kernel* ones are debian (originally) kernels.

I havent used Debian since sarge, so didn't realise they had adopted the linux-* name too, sorry.

Cheers,
Al.



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