How to check the version of a Linux OS

Posted By Scott Klarr on Feb 19, 2008 at 11:59 pm

Console Command:

uname -a is a linux command that will output useful information about your linux distribution, kernel version, cpu information and more.

Example Output

Linux computerName 2.6.22.18-desktop-1mdv #1 SMP Mon Feb 11 13:53:50 EST 2008 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.40GHz GNU/Linux

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Comments (2)

prasanna - Aug 24, 2008

Dear sir,

i want to know how to check linux version . normally in windows we just check windows explore then help then status .i lnstalled fedora 8 or 9 i want to know how to check

alMubarmih - Jul 12, 2008

But the real command can give you the truth is:

cat /proc/version

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