Grub and/or kernel problem...

Ian Zimmerman nobrowser-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org
Wed Nov 16 05:40:17 UTC 2005


John> I would guess that this rename occurred because Debian now
John> supports Debian/Linux, Debian/Hurd, and now the opened up
John> Debian/Solaris (whatever it's called instead of Solaris).  Many
John> source packages will have the same name because the same source
John> code gets used for all OS/hardware targets, but the name
John> kernel-source would suggest a single package containing a common
John> kernel for all of the OS variants.

Don't forget about Debian GNU/kFreeBSD.  I think there's a NetBSD port
too, not sure what they call that one.

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