Re: How to display the linux distribution name?

From: Rolf Arne Schulze (raskall_at_gmail.com)
Date: 08/30/05 

Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 21:37:47 +0200

On 30 Aug 2005 07:52:50 GMT, Blinky the Shark wrote:
> Bruce wrote:
>
>> I want to see the linux distribution name, such as Redhat 9, Redhat ES
>> 3, SuSE Enterprise 9. What is the command?
>
> What Davide said, but I did find a list that claims to show some common
> filenames for this. The one listed for Mandrake did, indeed, provide
> this information:
>
> [blinky@thurston quarrantine]$ less /etc/mandrake-release
> Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586

I think I have found the distribution name in /etc/issue on most of
the linux distros I have tried. I can't say if it is there on all of
them, though. 

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Rolf Arne Schulze
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