[olug] Which Distribution

[Mark A. Martin]

On Red Hat, the file /etc/redhat-release contains the version of the
distribution.  For Mandrake, it's /etc/mandrake-release.  (I don't know
how new a user you are so I'll give you the ultra-newby intructions.) 
To see what version you're running, simply print the contents of the
file using the command

cat /etc/dist-release

where "dist" is replaced by redhat or mandrake or whatever name is
appropriate.  Other Red Hat based distributions probably use a similar
mechanism.  Type

ls /etc/*-release

to see if you have such a file on your system.
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Mark A. Martin					Dept of Applied Mathematics
http://www.amath.washington.edu/~mmartin	University of Washington
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