[CentOS] CentOS, linux and kernel version

Thu Dec 19 13:05:23 UTC 2013
SilverTip257 <silvertip257 at gmail.com>

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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