Read version and distro?

[Patrick Fleming EA]

[pat@gw-fw realty]$ cat /proc/version
Linux version 2.4.2-2 (root@porky.devel.redhat.com) (gcc version 2.96 
20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.1 2.96-79)) #1 Sun Apr 8 18:47:21 EDT 2001



On Thu, 15 Nov 2001, Jeff wrote:

> neither of those will print the distro version though....
> 
> 
> uname -a
> 
> At 04:23 PM 11/15/2001, you wrote:
> 
> >*or* cat /proc/version will give you more info.
> >
> >
> >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?
> >> 
> >> Alan
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