<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">You are right. Our IT people confirmed that what they installed was the newest RHEL5.<div><br><div><div>Am 06.04.2011 um 12:56 schrieb Tim Bradshaw:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On 6 Apr 2011, at 10:59, Paul Meurer wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><blockquote type="cite"><div>2.6.18 is several years old (was released in 2006), though it looks<br>like the particular kernel you're using was built more recently (with<br>an unknown set of mystery patches.)<font class="Apple-style-span"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#144FAE"><br></font></font></div></blockquote><div><br></div>I see. It's our IT department who does the updating, and I was in the belief that they updated to new versions. Surprise.</span></blockquote></div><br><div>Assuming this is RHEL, then Redhat's policy is to ship very old kernels with stuff you might want from newer kernels backported into it. 2.6.18 is the current RHEL 5 kernel I think, but RHEL's 2.6.18 may bear only passing resemblance to what 2.6.18 otherwise was. I went to a couple of talks by RH people (the place I work's most recent random platform lurch is to RHEL), and I think the underlying reason is Linux's somewhat loose idea of self-compatibility.</div><div><br></div><div>(RHEL6 might be 2.32.<something>).</div></div></blockquote></div><br><div>
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