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Re: Kernel upgrade to 4.1.6 w/o recompiles

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From	JohnF <john@please.see.sig.for.email.com>
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Subject	Re: Kernel upgrade to 4.1.6 w/o recompiles
Date	Mon, 24 Aug 2015 12:20:52 +0000 (UTC)
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Eef Hartman <E.J.M.Hartman@gmail.com> wrote:
> JohnF <john@please.see.sig.for.email.com> wrote:
>>   Off-topic, re uname -r : I'd noticed the default /etc/issue
>> has \s \r \l, which I'd guessed were uname -switches, except
>> that uname -l doesn't work. Where does it get that info from?
> 
> See "man agetty" or likewise, the issue file is used by the getty
> text-mode login process and IT interprets the \<letter> stuff..

Thanks for the additional info, Eef. And sorry for off-topic question.
I probably should have researched it myself first, but I just
recalled it when seeing your uname -r, and asked without thinking.

>> ( By the way, I sail as a hobby, and there ain't
>> no such thing as nautical kilometers :)
> 
> But there are "normal" ones (like: this lake is 10 km across).
> BTW you've shown one problem with "miles" as there are at least two
> different ones of them....
> Not even staring on knots, fathoms and likewise.

Aw, c'mon Eef, just kidding around. (Besides, "nautical km" would've
probably been more sensible if the English hadn't named it, since by
def it's the distance equivalent of one minute of latitude. And since
the original meter def was 10^7meters = equator-to-pole distance along
the Paris meridian, a "nautical mile"=10^7/90/60meters naturally,
as long as you don't insist on radians in preference to degrees.
By the way, google show's earth's polar circumference as 40,008km, so
their meter determination, wrt its 10^7 def, was excellent for the time.)
-- 
John Forkosh  ( mailto:  j@f.com  where j=john and f=forkosh )

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Kernel upgrade to 4.1.6 w/o recompiles JohnF <john@please.see.sig.for.email.com> - 2015-08-23 08:56 +0000
  Re: Kernel upgrade to 4.1.6 w/o recompiles Eef Hartman <E.J.M.Hartman@gmail.com> - 2015-08-23 22:28 +0000
    Re: Kernel upgrade to 4.1.6 w/o recompiles JohnF <john@please.see.sig.for.email.com> - 2015-08-24 04:40 +0000
      Re: Kernel upgrade to 4.1.6 w/o recompiles Eef Hartman <E.J.M.Hartman@gmail.com> - 2015-08-24 05:38 +0000
        Re: Kernel upgrade to 4.1.6 w/o recompiles JohnF <john@please.see.sig.for.email.com> - 2015-08-24 06:36 +0000
          Re: Kernel upgrade to 4.1.6 w/o recompiles Eef Hartman <E.J.M.Hartman@gmail.com> - 2015-08-24 11:07 +0000
            Re: Kernel upgrade to 4.1.6 w/o recompiles JohnF <john@please.see.sig.for.email.com> - 2015-08-24 12:20 +0000
  Re: Kernel upgrade to 4.1.6 w/o recompiles JohnF <john@please.see.sig.for.email.com> - 2015-08-24 10:43 +0000

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