How do I tell what version of Linux I'm running?

[Dronealone]

Hello,

How can I tell what version of Linux (Red Hat) I am running?

Thanks

 

[danielhozac]

cat /etc/issue

should do it. //Daniel

 

[Dronealone]

Thanks,

did that and I got nothing, I tried cat /proc/version

and got

Linux version 2.4.13 (root@toast) (gcc version 2.95.3 20010315 (release)) #1 SMP Fri Oct 26 11:25:03 EDT 2001

This tells me the kernel but not the Red Hat version, is that right?

 

[SgtB]

Shouldn't it tell you on boot up? There is a lot of text on boot, and one of the first things tells you what version you are running.
Are you running any kind of GUI interface?
If you are running GNOME, then click start->Programs->System->System info. This opens a new window with all sorts of info, including OS version.

Hope this helps.

 

[133tcamel]

this commands works on my system:

cat /etc/redhat-release

Red Hat Linux release 7.2 (Enigma)

see if it works on yours too?

--
san.

 

[RhythmAce]

If all of the above fail, here are a couple more you can try from the shell:

1) dmsg (should be on the first or second line)

2) guname (need GUI installed)

3) telnet localhost (need telnet server running)

4) read labels on CDs (need CDs)

 

[secureshell]

'uname' will do it. look at the man pages for more options. {W r i t e C o d e A n d K i c k A s s}

 

[fluid11]

Which uname option does this? I can only get it to show kernel information....

The "uname -a" option shows all of unames options in one output and its only kernel info.