[plug] Which linux is that ?

[Cameron Patrick]

On Tue, 29 Oct 2002 21:59:51 +0800, Bernard Blackham wrote:

| In most default installs, a "cat /etc/issue" will give you the
| banner string given at the console. Tells you which release aswell
| for most of the distros i've tinkered with - RH, Debian, Mandrake
| and maybe more.

But not Gentoo ;-)

cameron at erdos:~$ cat /etc/issue
cat: /etc/issue: No such file or directory

cameron at erdos:~$ cat /etc/redhat-release
cat: /etc/redhat-release: No such file or directory

cameron at erdos:~$ cat /proc/version
Linux version 2.4.19-gentoo-r7 (root at erdos.home) (gcc version 2.95.3
20010315 (release)) #4 Mon Aug 26 16:53:10 WST 2002

CP