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When visiting a new Linux system, it may not be known which of the many flavors and versions the system is. This recipe describes a couple of techniques for determining the version of Linux running on a host.

The command uname -a will generate output like

Linux poly.tech-recipes.com 2.6.5-1.358 #1 Sat May 8 09:04:50 EDT 2004 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

This can be interpreted as:


Code:
kernel name:     Linux 
hostname:        poly.tech-recipes.com 
kernel release:  2.6.5-1.358 
kernel version:  #1 Sat May 8 09:04:50 EDT 2004
The specific distribution information is missing from the uname output. Many distributions put this information in a file in /etc like /etc/redhat-release, /etc/debian_version, /etc/gentoo-release, and so on. For the system described by the uname output above, the file /etc/fedora-release contains the following text:


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 Fedora Core release 2 (Tettnang)
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