On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 4:36 AM, Derek Martin <inva...@pizzashack.org> wrote: > On Sat, Nov 03, 2012 at 12:27:48PM -0400, Kurt Keville wrote: >> root@J1:~# uname -a >> Linux J1 3.0.0-9-generic #14-Ubuntu SMP Tue Aug 23 17:02:50 UTC 2011 >> i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux >> >> since it is Ubuntu and I have a date, I should be able to divine the >> distro... but 3.0.0-9-generic is unique to 11.10... and noone ever >> dowrevs a kernel, do they? > > The other methods are faster and more reliable, and pretty ubiquitous, > so there's not a lot of incentive for someone to compile such a > database. Distros probably never downgrade, but older distros may > well upgrade, and that doesn't take into account if (you are not the > admin of the box, and) the admin installs a custom kernel.
Where "custom" can be very strange. I force installed a 64-bit stock Ubuntu kernel on a working 32-bit install. (I was tired of running a PAE kernel and wanted to stick with a 32-bit user space.) Turns out it actually ran fairly well. Unfortunately, I seem to recall that Ubuntu's update manager was confused by this setup. In addition, getting Virtualbox working in that environment didn't look to be easy... Bill Bogstad _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss