iXXX

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Thu Dec 23 14:15:11 UTC 2004


Maciek R. wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have a bad feeling asking this. Don't laugh at me please ... but, what
> is iXXX behind the word 'kernel', I mean for example FC3 kernel i686?
> 
> If I get the output ...
> 
> [root at ferrari i386]# uname -r
> 2.6.9-1.667
> 
> .. does it mean I have i686 because of the 6 after the 2? Or is there a
> different way to find it out?

2.6.9 is the kernel version.
1.667 is the RPM release number.

The same kernel/RPM release can be built for different architectures.

To see exactly what you have installed, try this:

$ rpm -q --queryformat '%{NAME}-%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE} (%{ARCH})\n' \
	kernel kernel-smp

Also see "man uname"

Paul.




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