[COLUG] Centos version questions, and a few others..

[R P Herrold]

On Sun, 20 Jan 2008, Tom Hanlon wrote:

> [root at main etc]# cat /proc/version
> Linux version 2.6.9-67.0.1.ELsmp (mockbuild at builder6.centos.org) (gcc 
> version 3.4.6 20060404 (Red Hat 3.4.6-9)) #1 SMP Wed Dec 19 16:01:12 EST 
> 2007

> I assume that  (gcc version 3.4.6 20060404 (Red Hat 3.4.6-9))
> implies that I am running the CentOS version that is equivalent to RHEL3.4 .
> Is that assumption correct ?

  no -- just that a gcc-3.4 variant was used to compile the 
kernel; RHEL (and centos) version 'numbers' should not matter 
at all to the right of the decimal point, as the API/ABI are 
supposed to be stable with very minor exceptions

> I guess I will be finding a CentOS mirror, the server is in Toledo.

please please use the search function and read the article at 
'wiki.centos.org' which /vserver/ turns up

- Russ herrold