Is there a way to determine what version (distribution & kernel version, I suppose) of Linux is running (from the command-line), that works on any Linux system?
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May 31, 2007 What is the command to find the solaris version? Through network management tool I am able to see it as 2.10, but with uname, showrev it show 5.1(revision). I know uname -a or /proc/version Is any other command to know the Linux version???? When we telnet to any of the Linux server, the version shows very clearly like Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 3 (Taroon. (1 Reply) Discussion started by: bachegowda.
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To see the version of Oracle Solaris software that is running on your system, type either of the following commands. $ uname -a The cat command provides more detailed information. $ cat /etc/release.
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The kernel is universally detected with
uname :
There really isn't a cross-distribution way to determine what distribution and version you're on. There have been attempts to make this consistent, but ultimately it varies, unfortunately. LSB tools provide this information, but ironically aren't installed by default everywhere. Example on an Ubuntu 9.04 system with the
lsb-release package installed:
Otherwise, the closest widely-available method is checking
/etc/something-release files. These exist on most of the common platforms, and on their derivatives (i.e., Red Hat and CentOS).
Here are some examples.
Ubuntu has
/etc/lsb-release :
But Debian has
/etc/debian_version :
Fedora, Red Hat and CentOS have:
Gentoo:
I don't have a SUSE system available at the moment, but I believe it is
/etc/SuSE-release .
Slackware has
/etc/slackware-release and/or /etc/slackware-version .
Mandriva has
/etc/mandriva-release .
For most of the popular distributions then,
will most often work. Stripped down and barebones 'server' installations might not have the 'release' package for the distribution installed.
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Additionally, two 3rd party programs you can use to automatically get this information are Ohai and Facter.
Note that many distributions have this kind of information in
/etc/issue or /etc/motd , but some security policies and best practices indicate that these files should contain access notification banners.
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You could also try:
It usually (not always, though) will tell you what distribution you are using.
/etc/issue is the file used for the login screen.
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at a minimum for Ubuntu, Fedora and OpenSUSE.
Does not work for OS X at least until 10.9 (Mavericks). Use sw_vers instead.
Free nautical charts for google earth. OpenSUSE had cat /etc/SuSE-release up until 13.1 but is deprecated in favour of os-release.
Redhat 6.1 has cat /etc/redhat-release
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cat /proc/version found me Red Hat on a shared VPS.
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Kernel:
uname -r
Distro:
lsb_release -a
These will run on most Linux systems
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Solaris Version Check Command
This issue can also be solved using Python with the
platform module:
Using
platform() function:
The above command returns a single string identifying the underlying platform with as much useful information as possible.
Or using
uname() function:
The above command returns a
namedtuple() containing six attributes: system , node , release , version , machine , and processor .
Or using
dist() function:
Solaris Kernel Version Command
The last command tries to determine the name of the Linux OS distribution name, but it is deprecated since Python 3.5 and will be removed in Python 3.8.
Solaris Release Command
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