RHEL Kernel Versions

[David W. Aquilina]

On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 05:42:39PM -0400, Kenny Lussier wrote:
> How do RedHat kernel version numbers correlate to actual
> kernel.orgreleases? The latest RH kernel is 2.6.9-67, but the
> kernel.org latest stable is 2.6.25.3? Is there any way to tell what the
> kernel patch level is and what the patches are in the RH kernels?

It's impossible to tell from the kernel version alone - the 2.6.9 bit is what it was originally based on, but there's been a lot of changes since. 

There is a changelog available though so you can see what's been added... 

rpm -q kernel --changelog | less 

This works for any Red Hat/Fedora kernel, by the way. 

(replace 'kernel' with 'kernel-smp' if you're using the SMP variant, etc) 

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David W. Aquilina
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