-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On 05/29/2014 07:49 AM, Horatio Leragon wrote:
> During installation of Debian 7.5, one is prompted to install either > > linux-image-3.2.0.4-amd64 > > or > > linux-image-amd64 > > There is no context-sensitive help menu on that page. > > Could someone tell me what the differences between those two are and > which is the better of the two? To repeat what other people have said, with a bit more detail (which may or may not be helpful): linux-image-3.2.0.4-amd64 installs version 3.2.0.4 of the Linux kernel, compiled for the AMD64 architecture. If you install this package, your package manager will automatically pull in updates to newer versions of the 3.2.0.4 kernel, but will not pull in version 3.3 or newer when that becomes available from the repositories. linux-image-amd64 depends on whatever the latest-in-Debian AMD64 version of the Linux kernel is. If you install this package from Debian stable, you will currently get kernel 3.2.0.4, but when version 3.3 or newer becomes available from the repositories your package manager will automatically pull in that version instead. (You will still have to manually tell your package manager to install updates, of course, unless it offers some kind of "install updates automatically on a schedule" configuration option. This just affects which updates it will choose when you do that.) Which one is better depends on what your needs are. Personally, unless I need rock-solid no-chance-of-anything-breaking-ever stability and am willing to accept the cost of no new kernel features and so forth, I would always go with linux-image-amd64. - -- The Wanderer Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny. A government exists to serve its citizens, not to control them. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJThy1vAAoJEASpNY00KDJrMskP/1HSKReWiqFVwZMyBi2AcHig ksFSt56jzc5/C2sFEz0NouNiyM/QHxpI7kU7bnJq0b6H7Lrps3kmK1mFNy/1pptQ VyJPv9dta7vOb+cX7d4MD1YWA5PpMzmhxA73i+Wgy8kVBAYd+yUVzRXgn8M+jgqG 6KDHXB+9xmrPKnh4jKOlHMfB2get4TibZegEPo89Qn22cZWSAtaRRYKXtAw3+y3U UIAF/lrQSXsk2Nqvqhdnus6kw+PBcxOjp+/BylYM6CCfMztPo5KJxej/I4dxHRw9 D80uUMX646RD4ET5m//9sKAjgdO1hH9mTiKnhNQtEqFLYWx/8Ty/E4/bU8C1VYcV L6BSgzIlnvyJ8PIlifhRScqhWZ3RSLCsbyRP2WHzBg1EnXwI1dKA7jtx51i2hdpK zJj6++Vwm7bwvUZwBL8dlNlCyTEa6Nesy+K7BCh2x1Ewsgnqe8KqOlLFrTmST0UI PGlE15s0IGe1TxWSs0EUX0pJ4cYiCvvsk6xfpRn9in07CGaV1eOuvTvSJfXqv0ih eOqKEm05TnVkd9GB8u18netVH6nI8xI6NMKRXHiWUEPuqYwqR2shZWnKDwoplZam ydhZWZJCM7oLDP3FjeTySVOCenP5QMQgsbLwqcqrfvmK5lMmV2vjIcnNLpCtqXoK ZCasMSRBvMEtP/QVbbvT =VMIM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/53872d6f.7020...@fastmail.fm
