How do I know which distro I am running on?

[Net Llama!]

On Thu, 13 Feb 2003, Susan Macchia wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Does anyone know how I can find out which distro I am running on?  I can use
> uname to find the kernel and basic OS (i686-Linux vs. ia64-Linux, for example),
> but I need to know more than that because the same combinations can be found on
> a variety of distros.

Unfortunately (or perhaps fortunately, from a security standpoint) there
is no standard for determining this.  Some distros embed this information
in /etc/issue.  Redhat also tends to include a /etc/redhat-release file.

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