How do I know which distro I am running on?

Lee rathaus
Mon May 17 11:44:32 PDT 2004


Usually that info is displayed in the early stages of bootup. With SUSe that 
info is also displayed on the graphic login. finally, after login in kde 
there is usually an internet site icon for the particular distro.

Lee



On Thursday 13 February 2003 09:39, 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.
>
> TIA
>
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