How do I know which distro I am running on?

Coppernix coppernix
Mon May 17 11:44:32 PDT 2004


>--- Susan Macchia <susan at smacchia.net> a ?crit?: 
> 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.
> 

Hi,
I think "cat /proc/version" is not bad.
It's the first line of dmesg.
For Sco Linux it says Suse ;-)

Patrick

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