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Those are the current versions of each. The comparison is between the kernel versions, not the distro version numbers.
by marcoperaza 10y ago
Those are the current versions of each. The comparison is between the kernel versions, not the distro version numbers.
- 6581 10y ago"still at version 7" strongly implies a comparison of the distro version numbers.
- Daviey 10y agoWhich reminds me of 1999 when Slackware jumped from version 4 to 7, purely to keep up with competition.
- JdeBP 10y agoNo, it does not. It implies that one has been at a particular level for some time, whilst the other has only reached its current level recently. chrisper was very clearly not comparing the release numbers, as xe said. One only need read xyr prior comment in this very same thread where xe was talking about outdatedness of what is currently available.
- coredog64 10y agoEven the kernel version isn't particularly helpful, as Red Hat is backporting new features into the version shipped by RHEL 6 and 7. One specific example is the SO_REUSEPORT socket option which was added to Linux kernel 3.9, and was subsequently backported and became available since RHEL 6.5, which uses version 2.6.32 of the Linux kernel.[0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux#Kernel_backporting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux#Kerne...