Ubuntu Hoary @ OSNews.com

[John DeCarlo]

On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 10:45:20 -0500, volvoguy <volvoguy at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have the "linux-image-686-smp" package installed, and it was my
> understanding that it would always pull in the newest 686-smp kernel.
> The article mentioned Hoary is at 2.6.9, but I still seem to be at
> 2.6.8. I realize that in a development version, things may not work as
> they ought, but almost everything in that article was unfamiliar to
> me. :) lol. (I pay attention, I really do!)
> 
> Do I need to explicitly get the 2.6.9 package? Is the metapackage (or
> whatever you'd call that) not doing it's job?

I wondered about that myself, since I update several times a day, yet
uname -r still returns 2.6.8.1-3-686

OTOH, I seem to remember reading somewhere that Hoary only has 2.6.9
for the generic 386 package, and nothing yet for 686 or 686-smp.

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John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own