Read version and distro?

[Bill Warner]

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uname -a

will give you the kernel version

/etc/issue || /etc/issue.net

will normally have the distribution in it.  but there is no
one given spot to find this information from that I know of.

Bill Warner

On Thu, 2001-11-15 at 15:54, alandd@mindspring.com wrote:
> Is there a command(s) or perhaps a file to read that will tell what kerne=
l 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 diff=
erent places.  Whatever.  How do I get that?
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