What Linux distro am I running?
By James Cooley - July 25 2007
tags: linux
"uname -a" doesn't tell you so you could try this:
# most distros have a release file in /etc $ ls /etc/*release* /etc/lsb-release $ cat /etc/lsb-release DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu DISTRIB_RELEASE=7.04 DISTRIB_CODENAME=feisty DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 7.04" $