finding linux version

[toraj58]

how is it possible to find the version of linux using a command?

and how to find it from a file?

 

[QatQat]

uname -a

will give you info about the linux kernel running on your system


or look into the file

/proc/version

for detailed info about linux kernel and distribution

Cheers

QatQat




Life is what happens when you are making other plans.

 

[QatQat]

or, I forgot

cat /etc/issue

brief info about distro

QatQat

Life is what happens when you are making other plans.

 

[toraj58]

tnx qatqat...'cat /etc/issue' was so usefull for me i only knew 'cat /etc/redhat-release'

 

[rzs0502]

I wonder, Is there perhaps a common command to all distros to get this info?

One some sites, people remove text from /etc/issue & /etc/motd
I use Slackware 11 which doesn't have anything in /etc/issue (and I removed the text in /etc/motd)
I can still check the distro name and version in /etc/slackware-version
I'm also not sure if these files are updated if you upgrade to a higher version?



"If you always do what you've always done, you will always be where you've always been."

 

[lgarner]

Not really common, but the existence of a "-release" file, or maybe -version, seems to be pretty common. On RedHat it's redhat-release, on SUSE it's SuSE-release. The file belongs to a package (mine's centos-release-4-4.2), so it'll be updated when that package is updated.