I have a laptop and a desktop (lucky me!). Both are 64-bit Intel machines. I upgrade both with apt
and they end up with different kernels. Why?
Desktop
$ grep -m1 name /proc/cpuinfo
model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4770 CPU @ 3.40GHz
$ cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=16.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=xenial
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS"
$ uname -a
Linux stu 4.4.0-110-generic #133-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jan 12 18:53:57 UTC 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Has 8 cores and 16GiB RAM.
Brought to 16.04 via an upgrade from 14.04.
Laptop
$ grep -m1 name /proc/cpuinfo
model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6560U CPU @ 2.20GHz
$ cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=16.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=xenial
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS"
$ uname -a
Linux kind 4.4.0-109-generic #132-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jan 9 19:52:39 UTC 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Has 4 cores and 16GiB RAM.
Brought to 16.04 directly--fresh install.
Update command
time (sudo apt update && sudo apt -y full-upgrade) && sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge
I feel like I'm on two branches of an A/B test.
Kernel 4.4.0-110-generic is not released into main yet, and is in the Proposed repository, which is not enabled by default.
You must have the proposed enabled on the laptop. Check Software&Updates/Developer Options to make sure.