The version of Linux you are using is almost certainly 2.4, not 9. You may be running Mandrake 9.0 or Red Hat 9.0, but the current stable Linux kernel version is 2.4. Commercial firms use different numbering schemes, mainly in order to sound more advanced than the competition.

Just to stop you getting giggled at by other Linux people :-)

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