[Nottingham] uname decoding

[Simon Osborne]

On 07/12/2007, Penfold Q <penfoldq at penfoldq.co.uk> wrote:
> I've been looking for a couple of days now and haven't found a
> satisfactory answer in the man pages, info pages or google so I thought
> I'd ask if anyone here knows...
>
> On a linux host, `uname -v` starts with a # character and a number. What
> does this signify?

Quick Google says:

 The answer is that the uname -v gives the "The number of the last major
 kernel patch applied to the machine."

Simon