Re: [cobalt-users] Linux Version

[Ed Booher <ebooher@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

This information is from a RaQ2 ....

When telnetting into the box you see the following.

Cobalt Linux release 4.0 (Fargo)
Kernel 2.0.34 on a mips
login: 

Hence, I am running Linux 4.0 (from Cobalt's point of view) 
*BUT* what I think every one is asking, is being asked
incorrectly.  Because Linux itself is only at kernel revision 2.4
(and 2.4 is still in alpha test phase) So if you run a uname you
get the following ...

[admin admin]$ uname -a
Linux raq1.onecall.net 2.0.34 #1 Wed May 5 16:04:43 PDT 1999 mips
unknown
[admin admin]$ 

Hence my RaQ2 is using Linux kernel 2.0.34 .... *This* is what is
important.  Red Hat could issue a release tomorrow, say that they
have decided that Apple has an interesting idea and that they are
going to be releasing Red Hat X by the end of the week.  (Read
that as Red Hat Ten)  Just because Red Hat *says* they are at
version 10, they can't be any higher than kernel revision 2.4
because Linus Torvalds isn't any higher than revision 2.4 (well,
I think it's officially being called 2.4.0-test1).  Red Hat is at
6.2, Debian is at 2.1, Slackware is at 7, TurboLinux (the
preferred Linux of the Asian world) is at 4.0, Stampede is at
0.9, Corel is still at 1.0 I think, LinuxPPC is at 2000, and
Yellow Dog is at 1.2.  What this means is that Company version
numbers are a bunch of nothing that they can throw around willy
nilly and not pay any attention to beyond their own internal
packaging schemes.  

If you want to know what version of the kernel you are running,
simply telnet directly to the box and type uname -a ... this will
tell you exactly what kernel is on your system.  Therefore will
tell you exactly what version of Linux you are running.  Also you
seem to be forgetting that the RaQ isn't running Red Hat .... it
is running a Red Hat *based* distribution, and all of the GUI and
other Cobalt essential portions of the distribution are still
done by Cobalt *NOT* Red Hat.  Again, going back to the fact that
my RaQ2 is running *Cobalt Version 4.0* but is actually based on
Red Hat 5.2 I believe.  Forget about the Red Hat version number,
it means nothing and will only get you in trouble later on if you
think that Red Hat has anything to do with Cobalt or their
systems.

Ed Booher
Network Engineer
One Call Internet
http://www.onecall.net


Brandon Wheaton wrote:
> 
> Do you know where in the OS this documented? In "regular"
> RedHat distributions there is a file in /etc called
> "redhat-release" that contains the version. I have looked
> far and wide for the RedHat version on my RaQ3i but have
> found nothing, save for the Kernel version. I hope this
> isn't a "because Cobalt told me so" situation because
> those folks have little credibility with me, especially
> after this last O/S release disaster. I think I will wait
> on the upgrade, thanks.
> 
> Anyway, take care.
> 
> Brandon Wheaton
> UNIX Systems Engineer
> ValiCert, Inc.
> 1215 Terra Bella Ave.
> Mountain View, CA 94043
> 650.567.5430
> ----
> Computers are useless; they can only provide answers.
> ~Pablo Picasso
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steven Werby [mailto:steven-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2000 12:06 PM
> To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] Linux Version
> 
> > What version of Linux is on a RaQ3? 5 or 6?
> 
> 6.1
> 
> Steven Werby {steven-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx}
> 
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