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Incremental upgrades of the kernel are distributed as:
The correct answer is A. patches. Incremental upgrades of the kernel are distributed as patches. For example, if you have version 1.1.45, and you notice that there's a patch46.gz' out there for it, it means you can upgrade to version 1.1.46 through application of the patch. You might want to make a backup of…
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- Apatches.
- Bfixes.
- Chotfixes.
- Dservice packs.
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Incremental upgrades of the kernel are distributed as patches. For example, if you have version 1.1.45, and you notice that there's a patch46.gz' out there for it, it means you can upgrade to version 1.1.46 through application of the patch. You might want to make a backup of the source tree first (make clean' and then `cd /usr/src; tar zcvf old-tree.tar.gz linux' will make a compressed tar archive for you.).
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