uname Output

[Jerry McBride]

On Sunday 16 January 2005 10:39 pm, Ian Stephen wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-01-16 at 18:48, Kurt Wall wrote:
> > So, I execute 'uname -a' and I get the following:
> >
> > $ uname -a
> > Linux luther 2.6.10 #1 Sat Jan 15 01:43:34 EST 2005 i686 unknown
> > unknown GNU/Linux
> >
> > The two "unknown" fields are for the processor and hardware platform,
> > which _ought_ to be pretty well known. The processor is an AMD Athlon
> > 1200 and the hardware platform is IA32, or whatever Intel is calling
> > their 32-bit x86 systems these days.
> >
> > How do I get this into my uname string?
>
> Huh, I get
>
> Linux localhost 2.6.3-7mdk #1 Wed Mar 17 15:56:42 CET 2004 i686 unknown
> unknown
>

How does that compare to /proc/cpuinfo?

Mine says:

Linux spinner 2.6.10 #3 Sat Jan 8 16:32:26 EST 2005 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 
3200+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux

Which is right out of /proc/....


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