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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