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From: candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
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Subject: Re: I would be remiss if I didn't post...
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rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote at 04:49 this Sunday (GMT):
> On Sat, 16 Nov 2024 20:03:33 -0500, Joel wrote:
>
>> candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
>> wrote:
>>>rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote at 01:35 this Saturday (GMT):
>>>>
>>>>> Linux candydeb 6.1.0-27-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.1.115-1
>>>>> (2024-11-01) x86_64 GNU/Linux
>>>>
>>>> 10 years old? I thought I hung onto old versions.
>>>
>>>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.
>
> 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
>
> That gives the Ubuntu version more or less. man uname says
>
> -a, --all
> print  all  information, in the following order, except omit -p and -i if  
> unknown:
>
> which breaks down to
>
> 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
>
> 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
>
> #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.1.115-1 (2024-11-01)
>
> 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. 
>
> hostnamectl (yeah, it's systemd) says
>
> Operating System: Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS              
> Kernel: Linux 6.8.0-48-generic
> Architecture: x86-64
>
> 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. 
>
> 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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