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Old 02-20-2008, 08:16 PM
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Default What distribution is running?
Is there a way to tell what version of Linux I am in and what distro is installed?
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This works on Debian and Ubuntu, but I don't know about others.
Code:
$ cat /proc/version
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Old 02-24-2008, 03:52 AM
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I found this also (minutes after my post).

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uname -a
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Old 02-25-2008, 01:10 PM
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To find them both:

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uname -a && cat /etc/*release
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