How Do I Know What Linux Distro I Have?
Contents How Do I Know My Distro? Open a Terminal Program (Get to a Command Prompt) and Type Uname -A. This Will Give You Your Kernel Version, but Might Not...
How do I know my distro?
Open a terminal program (get to a command prompt) and type uname -a. This will give you your kernel version, but might not mention the distribution your running. To find out what distribution of linux your running (Ex. Ubuntu) try lsb_release -a or cat /etc/*release or cat /etc/issue* or cat /proc/version.
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What distro does Linux use?
As far as I know, he uses Fedora on most of his computers because of its fairly good support for PowerPC. He mentioned that he used OpenSuse at one point in time and complimented Ubuntu for making Debian accessible to the mass.
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