Read version and distro?

[Patrick Fleming]

On Thu, 15 Nov 2001, Kevin Buettner wrote:

> On Nov 15,  4:43pm, Patrick Fleming EA wrote:
> 
> > [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
              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I'm running RedHat 7.1 on this box.          

> 
> This is the kernel version.  It's true that "redhat" or "Red Hat"
> appears in the above string, but all this really tells you is that the
> kernel in question was built on a Red Hat machine with a Red Hat
> version of gcc.  It would (conceivably) be possible to run the kernel
> in question on some other Linux distribution.
> 
> Kevin
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