Determine Fedora Version

David Mack dmack at juniper.net
Fri Feb 29 00:30:06 UTC 2008


After installing system-summary via yum:

Applications -> System Tools -> About This Computer

Gotta love things that make themselves available through gnome menus
without being asked.

Dave 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: fedora-test-list-bounces at redhat.com 
> [mailto:fedora-test-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of 
> Leon Stringer
> Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 4:10 PM
> To: fedora-test-list at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: Re: Determine Fedora Version
> 
> > From: Andrew Farris <lordmorgul at gmail.com>
> > Date: 2008/02/28 Thu PM 11:40:33 GMT
> > To: For testers of Fedora Core development releases
> > 	<fedora-test-list at redhat.com>
> > Subject: Re: Determine Fedora Version
> > 
> > Leon Stringer wrote:
> > > But then I thought, how does a user determine what 
> version of Fedora they're using? If I do System->About Fedora 
> I get  explanatory text but nothing about the version.
> > This is a very good point.  I suggest you take the idea and 
> file an RFE bug 
> > against the component 'fedora-release-notes', this is that 
> package that supplies 
> > the 'About Fedora' system menu item 
> (/usr/share/applications/about-fedora.desktop).
> 
> 1. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=435394
> 
> 2. 
> >> If Gnome:
> >>
> >> Applications -> System Tools -> File Browser
> >>
> >> Double click File System
> >> Double Click etc
> >> Double Click redhat-release
> >> 
> >> :-)
>    :-) indeed!
> 
> 3.
> >> Around F7, we[1] wrote an "About this computer" app
> >> called 'system- summary'. It's available in the repos for
> >> F8 and rawhide. It gives:
>    Yes, that's the sort of thing.
> 
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