musicalgeometry » *nix http://www.musicalgeometry.com sound, code, & DIY tech Sat, 24 Jul 2010 16:32:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 How To Find What Linux Distro You Are In? http://www.musicalgeometry.com/archives/697 http://www.musicalgeometry.com/archives/697#comments Sat, 12 Sep 2009 17:27:35 +0000 Jason Job http://www.musicalgeometry.com/?p=697 Continue reading →]]> 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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