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Given an Ubuntu kernel package version how do we find the release it is from?

April 26, 2017given Kernel package release ubuntu version

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Given an Ubuntu kernel package version how do we find the release it is from?

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The kernel package version is of the following form 2.6.35-6.9. The numbers before the – represent the base upstream version from which this kernel was forked, the first number following the – represents the ABI number, the final number is an upload number.