How To Know Which Linux Distribution You Are Using?

por | 10 julio, 2006
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Here are a few ways to find out which linux distro you are using :

  • From the Boot Time messages
    Fire up your favourite terminal program and type in the following

    dmesg | head -1

    The output would be similar to

    Linux version 2.6.13-15-default (geeko@buildhost) (gcc version 4.0.2 20050901 (prerelease) (SUSE Linux)) #1 Tue Sep 13 14:56:15 UTC 2005

  • Using /proc/version
    In the terminal type

    cat /proc/version

    The output would be like

    Linux version 2.6.13-15-default (geeko@buildhost) (gcc version 4.0.2 20050901 (prerelease) (SUSE Linux)) #1 Tue Sep 13 14:56:15 UTC 2005

  • Using /etc/issue
    This method gives the most appropriate answer

    cat /etc/issue

    The output should be like

    Welcome to SUSE LINUX 10.0 (i586) – Kernel \r (\l).

P.S : You may try this shell script to know about your Linux Distribution. The original source is here