Red Hat Kernel explaination

Steve Rieger riegersteve at gmail.com
Mon Feb 13 07:06:43 UTC 2006


if you are up2dat then yes


they are up to 4.2 already.


On Feb 12, 2006, at 10:49 PM, mac subbu wrote:

> Thanks
>
>
> My cat /etc/redhat-release is
> Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 3 (Taroon Update 5)
>
> So is this the red hat stable ???
>
> Thanks and regards
>
>
> On 2/12/06, Ed Wilts <ewilts at ewilts.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 10:43:08AM +0530, mac subbu wrote:
>>> We have a system Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 3 (Taroon  
>>> Update 5)
>>> kernel 2.4.21-32.EL...we wanted to know if this from Fedora core  
>>> stable
>> or
>>> Red hat AS..how we differentiate Red hat enterprise linux from  
>>> fedora
>> core
>>> distributions....the installer for this is anaconda..we wud have  
>>> thought
>>> anaconda is the installer for fedora core
>>
>> The .EL means it's the enterprise kernel.
>>
>> Anaconda is the installer for both Fedora Core and RHEL.  There  
>> are many
>> packages that are common to both since Fedora Core is the proving  
>> ground
>> for RHEL.  The package versions do differ slightly between the two -
>> you'll likely find features in the RHEL kernel that haven't been
>> backported to the Fedora Core kernel that the particular RHEL release
>> based on and instead were incorporated into the latest Fedora Core
>> kernel.
>>
>>> How can we differentiate between Fedora stable Vs Official redhat  
>>> stable
>>
>> To differentiate Enterprise Kernel from Fedora, cat /etc/redhat- 
>> release.
>>
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