Easy way to tell what linux distribution is installed

[Stephen Kuhn]

On Sun, 2004-07-11 at 14:46, shaughto at ee.ucr.edu wrote:
> Thanks for the info.... In gentoo it is "cat /proc/version".
> I guess it will vary a bit for each distribution.

uname -a

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