[CentOS] CentOS, linux and kernel version

Cliff Pratt enkiduonthenet at gmail.com
Fri Dec 20 00:11:51 UTC 2013


Ah, right. I was assuming (maybe erroneously) that the OP knew what was on
his/her system. 8-)

Cheers,

Cliff


On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 2:05 AM, SilverTip257 <silvertip257 at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 4:38 AM, Cliff Pratt <enkiduonthenet at gmail.com
> >wrote:
>
> > 3.9.3 is the kernel number. All Linux distributions use the Linux kernel,
> > so Debian version X and CentOS version Y may use the same kernel as may
> > Ubuntu version Z. There may be a list of CentOS versions and kernel
> numbers
> > somewhere, but I can't see that it would be of great interest.
> >
>
> CentOS 6.5 doesn't ship with a 3.x kernel.  If it was a 2.6.32-something
> kernel then it would likely be an official kernel ... not a 3.x though.
>  Possibly from elrepo or another third party repo.
>
> That's why this might be of interest to the OP.
>
>
> >
> > My Ubuntu 13.10 shows 3.11.0 so you have a fairly old Ubuntu version
> there.
> > In general the Ubuntu kernel will be newer than the more conservative
> > CentOS/RHEL.
>
>
> > Cheers
> > Cliff
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 8:29 PM, Jayadevan Maymala <
> > jayadevan.technology at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > > I am using CentOS 6.4.
> > > uname -r gives me
> > >
> > > 3.9.3-x86_64 Kernel version is 2.6.32. My questions -
> > >
> > > What is 3.9? In Ubuntu, uname -r and /boot give the same version
> numbers.
> > >
> > > Do we have a mapping of CentOS versions, the numbers like 3.9 and
> > > kernel versions maintained somewhere?
> > >
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > > Jayadevan
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