Yeah but my RedHat 7.2 says almost the same thing.
Linux version 2.4.7-10 (bhcompile@stripples.devel.redhat.com) (gcc 
version 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.1 2.96-98)) #1 Thu Sep 6 16:46:36 
EDT 2001

Carl Parrish

Patrick Fleming wrote:

> On Thu, 15 Nov 2001, Kevin Buettner wrote:
> 
> 
>>On Nov 15,  4:43pm, Patrick Fleming EA wrote:
>>
>>
>>>[pat@gw-fw realty]$ cat /proc/version
>>>Linux version 2.4.2-2 (root@porky.devel.redhat.com) (gcc version 2.96 
>>>20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.1 2.96-79)) #1 Sun Apr 8 18:47:21 EDT 2001
>>>
>               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> I'm running RedHat 7.1 on this box.          
> 
> 
>>This is the kernel version.  It's true that "redhat" or "Red Hat"
>>appears in the above string, but all this really tells you is that the
>>kernel in question was built on a Red Hat machine with a Red Hat
>>version of gcc.  It would (conceivably) be possible to run the kernel
>>in question on some other Linux distribution.
>>
>>Kevin
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