Re: I would be remiss if I didn't post...

rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote at 04:49 this Sunday (GMT):

On Sat, 16 Nov 2024 20:03:33 -0500, Joel wrote:
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candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
wrote:

rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote at 01:35 this Saturday (GMT):

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Linux candydeb 6.1.0-27-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.1.115-1
(2024-11-01) x86_64 GNU/Linux

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10 years old? I thought I hung onto old versions.

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Oh, weird. Is it that old?? I'm pretty sure I installed it on here less
than a year ago.

 
 
He's clearly confusing your kernel version for a Debian OS version
number.

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uname -a
Linux kropotkin 6.8.0-48-generic #48~22.04.1-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC
Mon Oct  7 11:24:13 UTC 2 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
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That gives the Ubuntu version more or less. man uname says
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-a, --all
print  all  information, in the following order, except omit -p and -i if 
unknown:
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which breaks down to
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uname -s  Linux
uname -n  kropotkin
uname -r  6.8.0-48-generic
uname -v  #48~22.04.1-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Mon Oct  7 11:24:13 UTC 2
uname -m  x86_64
uname -p  x86_64
uname -i  x86_64
uname -o  GNU/Linux
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p and i are non-portable but apparently the AMD Ubuntu box has them. v
must be sort of freeform. I was trying to interpret
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#1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.1.115-1 (2024-11-01)
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and saw the Debian. The 6.1 kernel would be from last year. I'm not sure
what the timestamp is and the man page doesn't go into it.
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hostnamectl (yeah, it's systemd) says
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Operating System: Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS             
Kernel: Linux 6.8.0-48-generic
Architecture: x86-64
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Thr RPi, which is derived from Debian says  Debian 1.6.6.51 so I have no
idea what that refers to.  The fedora box doesn't say anything about
fedora except that's the machine name.
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Ah, diversity...

Oh, cool! I didn't know about hostnamectl, that's pretty cool :D
According to it, I'm on "Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)"
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