Re: Debian/Ubuntu kernel update question

["Jerry Feldman-2" <user=4@nabble.blu.org>]

 On Tue, 24 Jun 2008 10:42:13 -0400 
"David Hummel" <[hidden email]> wrote: 

> I agree with you there, and it also may be the case that this same 
> category of users may not know or care what's going on in /boot ... 

The bottom line in both Debian based systems and RPM based systems it 
is the package manager. Ubuntu (and possibly Debian) names its packages 
"linux-image-2.6.24-16-generic" so that every kernel update has a new 
package name, and Suse and Fedora also have the kernel version in the 
name. And I agree that most users really don't know much or care much 
about kernels or /boot. They want a system that just works and that 
does not keep taking up space. Ubuntu has a pretty decent upgrade from 
one release to the next, but the old kernels are retained. I had 
kernels from Feisty Fawn and Gutsy Gibbon. 

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