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Zak
Asked: 2009-10-06 14:58:10 +0800 CST

How do i find out which Fedora version I'm running from the cli (not uname -a)?

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I want to know if the box is Fedora Core 4 or Redhat 9, or CentOS, etc... not if it has Kernel 2.6.x

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6 Answers

  1. This perhaps?

    [dummyuser@d400 ~]$ ls -l /etc/system-release
    lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 14 2009-06-04 19:05 /etc/system-release -> fedora-release

    [dummuser@d400 ~]$ cat /etc/system-release
    Fedora release 11 (Leonidas)

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  3. Best Answer

    On modern systems you should be able to look in /etc/lsb-release

    mojo-jojo david% cat /etc/lsb-release 
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=9.10
DISTRIB_CODENAME=karmic
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu karmic (development branch)"

    This should be the LSB mandated way of finding out the distribution across different Linux distributions.

    You should not rely on /etc/issue, as it is used for the login message, and someone might change it.

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  4. Even better, and *nixwide:

    lsb_release -d
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  5. I had to do 

    cat /etc/fedora-release
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  6. Ahh answer to my own question..

    cat /etc/issue

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