LinuxQuestions.org - How do I determine what version of Linux is running?

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Originally Posted by lugoteehalt

Isn't there the command 'kernelversion'?:)

Yes, kinda - from the man page:

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kernelversion is a small program for Debian/GNU Linux to report the major version of the kernel. This version is used by the modutils package to calculate the directories for kernel modules. See /etc/modules.conf for a sample usage.

So it seems it's only available for Debian. Still, it's not that useful; using it only gives the major version, as in

Code:

adoyle@minerva:~$ kernelversion 

2.6

which is not so useful as compared to

Code:

adoyle@minerva:~$ uname -r

2.6.12

and that works on all versions of Linux.

Hope this cleared things up!
Andrzej