How To Find What Linux Distro You Are In?

Posted on 2009 09 12 by Jason Job

I was recently doing something over ssh on my hosts shared server and realized that I didn’t know what Linux distro I was working in.

Which Distro

My server was running Red Hat

I did some Googling and found a number of suggestions on how to find this information out. Only the last of these three actually worked for me but I thought I would include them because it seems that they work for others on different systems.

lsb_release -a
cat /etc/lsb_release
cat /proc/version

Hopefully one of these will work for you.

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About Jason Job

I am a technologist, music producer and an obsessive student of the Internet. I create sound, write code and make things with electronics and microcontrollers. I work as a software developer and consultant and am currently focused primarily on mobile applications for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.
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