Re: how to tell which version of Linux a machine has

From: Jean-Pierre Moreau (notuser_at_baddomain.toto)
Date: 07/07/04 

Date: 06 Jul 2004 19:55:09 -0400

Alexander Skwar wrote

> Debian 3.0 doesn't have such a file. In Debian, you'd want to check for
> /etc/debian_version.

In Slackware, at least Slackware-9.1 :
  cat /etc/slackware-version #> Slackware 9.1.0
  cat /proc/version
     Linux version 2.4.24 (root@slack91) \
       (gcc version 3.2.3) #6 Tue Feb 17 23:48:09 PST 2004
Only '@slack91' for indicating slackware in /proc/version, not verbose. 

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Jean-Pierre Moreau
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