Am 12.03.2013 19:03, schrieb Chris Murphy: >> i learned it many years ago by facing the boot-menu > > > Well you wouldn't learn it today because of how grub2-mkconfig and grubby interact. ah and because things got worser you would make it more worse > Your first kernel update depends on grubby to write the entry in grub.cfg, > and uses a nomenclature completely different than grub2-mkconfig. thanks god for that, so i have the same behavior as all the years before on any machine > And then, most new linux users with Windows or OS X experience, > have no idea what a kernel even is. so they can learn or use Windows/OSX > If they do, most don't know what the kernel does that system services don't so they can learn or use Windows/OSX > Next it is never the case that Windows or OS X or mobile devices have > multiple kernel versions. There is only one kernel at one time on such systems BUT WE HAVE AND IT IS A BLESS > You'd have to learn this and you learn by FACING things > Even if I were to see a coherent list of kernels in a list by their date, > it's unlikely I as a new user would have made the leap to try another option with this argumentation you can follow the current attitude to make linux-systems to the same blackboxes as other operating systems but the better option for us all would be if people with this attitude switch to these operating systems instead damage slowly what we know as UNIX-LIKE system
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