fc version??

[Rick Stevens]

On Tue, 2006-08-01 at 18:11 +0100, Graham Cossey wrote:
> On 7/28/06, Sean Bruno <sean.bruno at dsl-only.net> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2006-07-28 at 09:07 -0700, bruce wrote:
> > > hi...
> > >
> > > uname -s gives a great deal of information about the kernel...
> > >
> > > how can i tell which version of FC i have on a box??
> > >
> > >
> >  rpm -q fedora-release
> >
> Just what I was looking for, however what format is the result?
> 
> fedora-release-2-4
> 
> Is that FC2 or FC4? I'm assuming FC2.
> 
> Sorry, but it's been so long since I touched this.

The official way to find it is to "cat /etc/redhat-release".  On Fedora
machines, /etc/redhat-release is a symlink to /etc/fedora-release.

Alternately, you can "cat /etc/issue".

I wouldn't bother with looking at the RPM version number.
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