[ale] Foolish Distro ID Question

Greg Freemyer greg.freemyer at gmail.com
Mon Mar 5 11:16:32 EST 2007


On 3/2/07, Paul Cartwright <paul_tbot at pcartwright.com> wrote:
> On Friday 02 March 2007 04:14:33 pm Greg Freemyer wrote:
> > > 2.6.18.2-34-default
> > >
> > >
> > > why am I so far behind on the kernel!!!
> >
> > SUSE does not update kernels during the 6 or 7 month period between
> > releases, just security fixes.
>
> ok, does this mean I  am running an SMP kernel:
>
> # uname -a
> Linux Paulspc 2.6.18.2-34-default #1 SMP Mon Nov 27 11:46:27 UTC 2006 i686
> i686 i386 GNU/Linux

Sometime recently (10.0 or 10.1) SUSE went to only releasing SMP
kernels.  I don't remember the logic, but I assume that even on UP
machines they get good speeds.

Greg
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Greg Freemyer
The Norcross Group
Forensics for the 21st Century



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