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Mithun Bhattacharya wrote:

> What I have been saying is that to know specifically which version of a
> distribution is installed just follow the strategy which the
> distribution uses to determine version.
> 
> RedHat : /etc/redhat-release
> Fedora : /etc/fedora-release
> Debian : /etc/debian-release
> Slackware : /etc/slackware-release

For tolerably LSB compliant systems lsb_release -a might do the trick.

Rgds
SM

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