[Nottingham] uname decoding

[Simon Osborne]

On 07/12/2007, Penfold Q <penfoldq at penfoldq.co.uk> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 03:25:20PM +0000, Simon Osborne wrote:
> > On 07/12/2007, Penfold Q <penfoldq at penfoldq.co.uk> wrote:
> > > 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
>
> Hmmm.. I have been looking at Google and have tried a large number of
> searches but not seen that answer. It seems right and fits in with the
> values I've seen on various boxes I've tried it on. (Eg #1 on a RHEL
> machine, #8 on a User Mode Linux client, etc)
>
> Thanks!
>
> -Penfold

I found it by entering "uname -v" with the quotes into Google

Simon