which distro do i have?

jameswillson · 06-16-2010, 03:23 PM

have tried to find out which distro my netbook is running, but cant find the info anywhere! Can anyone give me an easy step-by-step process?

acid_kewpie · 06-16-2010, 03:32 PM

There isn't necessarily one, you can see a bunch of info from a "uname -a", or "cat /etc/issue" can tell you. But these are things that you'd often see prsented very directly to you. The top of your dmesg output, and various points throughout will also often tell you.

rweaver · 06-16-2010, 03:34 PM

try:

Code:

cat /etc/*[_-][RVrv]{elease,ersion}

You'll probably pick up a few non-related items, but one of them should tell you what version of linux you're running, 'uname -a' may also show some details.

rokytnji · 06-16-2010, 03:36 PM

Open a terminal and

Code:

demo@mepis1:/aufs/home/demo$ cat /proc/version
Linux version 2.6.32-1-mepis-smp (MEPIS 2.6.32-0mepis5) (waldi@debian.org) (gcc version 4.3.2 (Debian 4.3.2-1.1) ) #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Dec 2 10:00:34 EST 2009
demo@mepis1:/aufs/home/demo$ uname -a
Linux mepis1 2.6.32-1-mepis-smp #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Dec 2 10:00:34 EST 2009 i686 GNU/Linux
demo@mepis1:/aufs/home/demo$ cat /etc/issue
Welcome to antiX. Powered by MEPIS and Debian.

Press Ctrl-Alt-F7, or maybe Ctrl-Alt-F8, for graphical login screen

baronobeefdip · 06-16-2010, 03:39 PM

give us a screenshot that might help

johnsfine · 06-16-2010, 03:51 PM

Oops! Replacing my earlier stupid answer with this stub.

jameswillson · 06-16-2010, 04:03 PM

/home/user> uname -a

Linux asus-209153092 2.6.21.4-eeepc #6 Mon May 5 11:38:34 EDT 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

/home/user> cat /etc/issue

Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 \n \l

many thanks!

Quote:

Originally Posted by acid_kewpie

There isn't necessarily one, you can see a bunch of info from a "uname -a", or "cat /etc/issue" can tell you. But these are things that you'd often see prsented very directly to you. The top of your dmesg output, and various points throughout will also often tell you.

snowday · 06-16-2010, 04:10 PM

I believe you are using a distro called Xandros that comes preinstalled on Asus eee-pc's.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xandros#ASUS_Eee_PC
http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=xandros

smeezekitty · 06-17-2010, 02:44 AM

Could be debian.
Are you using GNOME?
e.g. there are applications, system and other menus on top.

Mr. Alex · 06-17-2010, 05:08 AM

Code:

lsb_release -a

Code:

uname -a

linus72 · 06-17-2010, 06:40 AM

Quote:

Debian GNU/Linux 4.0

Debian 4.0?
wow, thats a classic

rweaver · 06-17-2010, 02:22 PM

Debian 4 is classic? heh. I still see Fedora core 4 regularly ... that would have been between debian 3.0 (woody) and 3.1 (sarge) which was around 2002-2005. Debian 4 (etch) was EOL'd 02/15/2010. I've even occasionally seen unpatched, untouched, fedora core 1 and two years ago I copied data off a redhat mothers day release machine... which was from the mid 90s sometime. It's scary sometimes how many old servers are sitting out there waiting to be exploited.