On 2018-01-10 16:58 -0500, Felix Miata wrote: > In the case of stable Debian release kernel versioning at least, the .0 in > both > seem to be entirely superfluous. Does any other integer ever appear in place > of > that 0?
No. The trailing .0 is only there to appease programs that do not work with a two-digit kernel version, which is also the reason why Linus numbers his releases as x.y.0(-rcN) rather than just x.y(-rcN) . You can learn more about the numbers used in Debian kernels and what they mean in the Debian Kernel Handbook[1]. > Upstream according to https://www.kernel.org/ 4.9 is at 4.9.75. The upstream version of the Debian kernel is available with "uname -v": ,---- | $ uname -v | #1 SMP Debian 4.14.12-2 (2018-01-06) `---- Here 4.14.12 is the upstream version, and the -2 indicates the Debian revision, not to be confused with the ABI version that appears in "uname -r": ,---- | $ uname -r | 4.14.0-3-amd64 `---- HTH, Sven 1. https://kernel-handbook.alioth.debian.org/ch-versions.html
