In a message dated: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 13:55:20 EDT [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, at 1:21pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Does anyone know what happened between the 2.4.18 and 2.4.19 kernels >> that changed the output of 'uname': >> >> client:/usr/src/linux# uname --version >> uname (sh-utils) 2.0.12 >> >> pll@tater:~$ uname --version >> uname (GNU sh-utils) 2.0.11 > > Er, are you sure it is not the different version of *uname* that is >causing the different answers? That would seem far more likely to me. Errrrrr. I don't know how I missed that. I specifically checked the versions and could have sworn they were both 2.0.11. I guess my vgrep is faulty, time to apt-get upgrade vgrep ;) Yep, it appears that uname got more options, and I was looking at the man/info for the old one installed on my laptop. The second 'unknown' is the '-i' or --hardware-platform, and the GNU/Linux label is the '-o' or '--operating-system'. <stallman rant mode=on> Now, last I checked, Stallman wanted to call the "entire system" GNU/Linux because so much of the environment is built upon GNU software. However, in the context of 'uname' would "operating system" also refer to the kernel, and therefore should be identified as just 'Linux'? Which would also make it redundant with --kernel-name (-s), IMO. I can't think of a scenario where one would be running a GNU/Linux "operating system" with a kernel which was not Linux? Sure, you could run the Hurd kernel, but that wouldn't be GNU/Linux, would it? Can anyone think of a scenario where the kernel name and the OS name would or should not be the same, at least in the Linux world? (I suppose one could argue that Sun ships the Solaris Operating Environment, and therefore, the "kernel name" might be SunOS, but the "operating system" would be Solaris, but IMO, the whole SunOS vs. Solaris thing is bunch of marketing crap.) <stallman rant mode=off> -- Seeya, Paul -- It may look like I'm just sitting here doing nothing, but I'm really actively waiting for all my problems to go away. If you're not having fun, you're not doing it right! _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss