How do I know what system I am Running

[DiehardDiesel]

　　
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[gogalthorp]

At a command prompt type

cat /proc/version

on my machine I get
Linux version 2.6.18.8-0.13-default (geeko@buildhost) (gcc version 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (SUSE Linux)) #1 SMP Thu Nov 6 13:35:13 UTC 2008

this shows the kernel version gcc version that built it, the generic distribution, that it is a SMB build and the time date it was built

Finding the version number for you distribution is a bit more difficult because it may not be in the same place for different distros. Post the result of the above and some will help find the version of the distro.

[MikeTbob]

You might also try

cat /etc/release

[devils casper]

Is something wrong at my side? Instead of English fonts, special characters are appearing in First post of this thread.

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[archtoad6]

Is something wrong at my side? Instead of English fonts, special characters are appearing in First post of this thread.

I'm seeing nothing but little squares w/ a few spaces in between.


On my system I get:

$ cat /etc/release
cat: /etc/release: No such file or directory

I prefer:

$ less /etc/*{release,version}*

or if you don't want to learn/use less' next/prev file controls & are willing to have a more complicated command:

e='========'; E="$e$e$e$e$e"
d='--------'; D="$d$d$d"
for F in /etc/*{release,version}*
do 
  echo -e "$E\n$F\n$D"
  cat -n $F
done  | less