Easy way to tell what linux distribution is installed

[Rik van Riel]

On Sun, 11 Jul 2004, Ed Wilts wrote:

> The short answer is that it's going to be VERY hard to determine which
> distribution you're running, if it's possible at all.  Nothing would
> stop me from putting a stock kernel on either of my systems and
> /proc/version is going to be even more wrong.

If you restrict yourself to /proc, sure.

However, a lot of distributions have /etc/<distro>-version
that can be used to detect what distro you're running on.

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