On 22 Jul 2024 21:20 -0500, from deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk (David Wright): > The machine I'm typing on is running bullseye and was installed with > linux-image-5.10.0-13-amd64. It's running linux-image-5.10.0-31-amd64 > now, so that's 22 different versions over 27 months, and a lot of work > put in by the Debian Kernel Team, thanks. I think Kroah-Hartman's > praise still applies.
It is a lot of work. Note that the -13- and -31- respectively refers to the ABI version of the build, which isn't necessarily the same thing as an updated kernel. It's not that uncommon for kernel updates to not increase the ABI version tag, so in practice your system has probably seen many more than 22 kernels over that period of time. (Without having checked, I wouldn't be surprised if the real number of kernel updates is on the order of 2-3 times the number of ABI bumps.) -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”
