finding out what system your rinning
 

I have a linux system and Im trying to find out how you tell what version its running

To get information about your kernel,
To see the release version, check if /etc hosts a file that tells you it; for example it could be called fedora-release, in which case
told you which Fedora release it was. On Debian it's debian-something and so on, so you'll have to see the file name yourself, for example with
Also check
for all options for that. For more precise information (not about the distribution as such, but the system in general) you could also read the files under /proc "filesystem".

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Hi,

Looking at the left bottom corner of your first post I see you are running Suse:

As stated by b0uncer, uname -a and in your case cat /etc/SuSE-release will give you some more info.

try
cat /etc/issue

or

lsb_release -a

on a terminal window. To get to a terminal window on GNOME click Applications then Accessories then Terminal
I am afraid I am not too familiar with KDE. You could also try pressing CTRL+ATL+F1 to get to a Terminal, you'll then have to login to run these commands, to get back to GUI type CTRL+ALT+F7