On Jo, 29 mai 14, 13:02:57, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 04:49:59AM -0700, 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? > > "linux-image-amd64" is a metapackage which always depends on the latest > amd64 linux kernel.
... for the given release (e.g. stable, backports, testing, etc.) > "linux-image-3.2.0.4-amd64" is actually an amd64 linux kernel. > > If you install "linux-image-3.2.0.4-amd64", then you'll stay at that > version (modulo security updates) even when newer kernels are released. It did happen that security upgrades had to bump the ABI, so if this happens during the lifetime of wheezy one will be stuck with the old version unless... > If you install "linux-image-amd64" then your kernel will be updated as > per normal packages. Exactly. Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic http://nuvreauspam.ro/gpg-transition.txt
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