[wplug] Several questions
Weber, Lawrence A
laweber at switch.com
Tue Jan 6 08:01:05 EST 2009
I have been working on the development of a product using uClinux as one
of its embedded operation systems. The development has been on PC's
running Fedora 8 and 9. My work is requiring me to understand Linux in
more detail than before. I have several petty questions that I would
like to bug you with.
1. On one of my PC's I upgraded from Fedora 6 to 9 in one step. I
mostly went o.k. I find that in my /usr/src/kernels directory four
subdirectories with kernel source. Two for fc6 and two for fc9. Why
are there two src directories for each version?
2. I noticed that the kernel that is running (uname -r) is not the
highest numbered 9 kernel. In fact it is not any of the kernels in
/usr/src
2.6.25-14.fc9.i686 is listed as running
2.6.25-14.fc9.i586 is in src as well as 2.6.27.9-73.fc9.i586
3. Under /usr/src there is a redhat directory tree, but there are no
files. What is it?
4. Kernel numbering: When is a dash used in the version number?
5. make xconfig will not run as it is seems to be compiling for KDE
(kconfig) while I am running gnome. Is there a xconfig for gnome?
6. When I was running fc6, the auto updating feature would always
report that the system was up-to-date. I assumed that was because fc6
was too old. When I did an update to fc9, I found that one of the fc6
kernel directories was changed.
7. Is this list of question a sign that I should go with Red Hat
Enterprise?
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