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Re: Debian version

From Anders Andersson <pipatron@gmail.com>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Debian version
Date 2021-11-11 14:30 +0100
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On Tue, Nov 9, 2021 at 1:24 PM Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Nov 09, 2021 at 09:22:25AM +0000, Koler, Nethanel wrote:
> > I am Nati, I am trying to find a variable that is configured in the linux-headers that can tell me on which Debian I am
>
> This sounds like an X-Y problem.  What's your real objective?
>
> There is NOT a one-to-one correspondence between a Linux kernel version
> and a Debian release version.  Debian allows you the freedom to use
> any kernel you want -- one of Debian's kernels, or one that you built
> yourself, or one that you copied over from an Ubuntu system, or whatever.

Or it might not be Linux at all, like
https://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/ or
https://www.debian.org/ports/kfreebsd-gnu/

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  Re: Debian version Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-11-09 13:30 +0100
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