How to tell which Linux distro you are using?
If you ever managed more than a few Linux servers, you may have found yourself in a situation where you don’t know which distro a particular server is using. I used to cat /proc/version to get a rough idea. But a friend of mine from work just gave me this tip:
cat /etc/issue
Simple, easy and objective!
Hope this help you out!
I tried it, and I get the following:
Welcome to \s \r (\l)
Which in a console becomes:
Welcome to Linux 2.6.16.29 (tty2)
I’d still like a way to find out which version of Slamd64 I am running on a computer I don’t normally use, such as 10.0, 12.0 or 12.1.
Further attempt:
less /etc/slackware-version
Which 0n my mystery machine returns:
Slackware 11.0 (x86-64)
Not sure what other distros will return…