[ale] Foolish Distro ID Question

[Michael B. Trausch]

On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 21:26 -0500, Paul Cartwright 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


Yep.  That information (in slightly more detail) is available
in /proc/version, as well.  Some distributions (such as Ubuntu) put a
config file in /boot so that you can find out for sure what the
specifics of the kernel configuration are, as well (why the hell aren't
they using the /proc/config.gz support, though?  That's a really nifty
feature that I enable in all of my kernels...).  Here's the information
from my system:

mbt at pepper:/boot$ uname -a
Linux pepper 2.6.20-9-generic #2 SMP Mon Feb 26 03:01:44 UTC 2007 i686
GNU/Linux
mbt at pepper:/boot$ cat config-2.6.20-9-generic |grep SMP
CONFIG_SMP=y
# CONFIG_X86_BIGSMP is not set
CONFIG_SUSPEND_SMP=y
CONFIG_X86_FIND_SMP_CONFIG=y
CONFIG_X86_SMP=y
mbt at pepper:/boot$ 

    -- Mike

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