hi slugs and thanks all,
yes i was looking for just the redhat version... however the wonderful thing
about this list is that now i've learnt how to find the kernel version as well,
which i'd probably be looking for soon anyway.
ben
Tom Massey wrote:
> Steve Kowalik wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 10:59:47PM +1100, Tom Massey uttered:
> > > Ben Donohue wrote:
> > > >
> > > > hi slugs,
> > > > what's the command to find out what version of linux you are running.
> > > > i've got some old redhat boxes fired up and want to see what they've
> > > > got.
> > >
> > > Try 'cat /proc/version' - I think that should work.
> > >
> > That will you show the version of _kernel_ you're running.
>
> True... But isn't that what the _version of Linux_ really is? (as in
> "I'm running Linux {6.2|7}" really doesn't mean much, and probably won't
> for 50 years or so if ever (Damn that'd be cool though, a 6.2
> kernel...)) Sorry, I'm probably being pedantic. I just like to
> distinguish between versions of Linux (kernel) and versions of distros.
>
> > [steven@mail steven]$ cat /etc/redhat-release
> > Red Hat Linux release 6.2 (Zoot)
> >
> > Those, or close relatives are what you are looking for, I'd say.
>
> Most likely you're right, this is what he's looking for. :-) But now I'm
> tripping out because I just found an /etc/redhat-release on my Mandrake
> box. It's a symlink to /etc/mandrake-release. They really should get rid
> of this.
>
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