Read version and distro?

[Jim]

On my slackware 8 box /bin/uname -a gives me the kernel version along with
some other information, but not the distro.

On Thu, 15 Nov 2001 alandd@mindspring.com wrote:

> Is there a command(s) or perhaps a file to read that will tell what kernel and distro verison a Linux box is running?  A string that says "RedHat X.X Linux 2.x" or something like that.  Or maybe the info comes from two different places.  Whatever.  How do I get that?
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