how to know which linux distro you are using through terminal

Posted by bput4all on June 15, 2013 · Leave a Comment 

command : uname -a if its showing only  ‘Linux’  try below procedure inside issue file we will find the details of distros so we can use below commands to get the information cat /etc/issue Following are the info files for different distributions: Novell SuSE—> /etc/SuSE-release Red Hat—>/etc/redhat-release, /etc/redhat_version Fedora–>/etc/fedora-release Slackware—>/etc/slackware-release, /etc/slackware-version Debian—>/etc/debian_release, /etc/debian_version Mandrake—>/etc/mandrake-release Yellow dog–>/etc/yellowdog-release Sun … Continue reading →

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