Read version and distro?

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Author: Jeff
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Subject: Read version and distro?
neither of those will print the distro version though....


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At 04:23 PM 11/15/2001, you wrote:

>*or* cat /proc/version will give you more info.
>
>
>On Thu, 15 Nov 2001 wrote:
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>> 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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>> Alan
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