http://linuxexchange.org/questions/2978/how-to-determine-the-linux-flavour-of-my-box<p>Hi,</p> <p>I have a diskstation and would like to know what linux flavour it is:</p> <p>I ran the following command and got this:</p> <pre><code>DiskStation&gt; uname -a Linux DiskStation 2.6.32.12 #2647 Wed Sep 26 03:18:29 CST 2012 armv5tel GNU/Linux synology_88f6282_212 </code></pre> <p>But it still doesn't really get me further.</p> <p>Thanks</p>enThu, 14 Aug 2014 03:27:40 -0400http://linuxexchange.org/questions/2978/how-to-determine-the-linux-flavour-of-my-box/3396<p>use #uname -o or #uname --version it gives os details</p>kalalharshalThu, 14 Aug 2014 03:27:40 -0400http://linuxexchange.org/questions/2978/how-to-determine-the-linux-flavour-of-my-box/3396http://linuxexchange.org/questions/2978/how-to-determine-the-linux-flavour-of-my-box/3054<p>lsb_release -a</p>RonSun, 03 Mar 2013 19:58:31 -0500http://linuxexchange.org/questions/2978/how-to-determine-the-linux-flavour-of-my-box/3054http://linuxexchange.org/questions/2978/how-to-determine-the-linux-flavour-of-my-box/3013<p>Use the below mentioned command </p> <h1>uname -a</h1>Sushanth AminThu, 10 Jan 2013 14:12:58 -0500http://linuxexchange.org/questions/2978/how-to-determine-the-linux-flavour-of-my-box/3013http://linuxexchange.org/questions/2978/how-to-determine-the-linux-flavour-of-my-box/3003<p>I know about cat /etc/issue This one works on all debian and ubuntu family distros. funnily /etc/issue gives me linux mint 13 and os-release gives me ubuntu 12.04 (still technically accurate, mostly). /etc/lsb-release is linux mint 13.</p>ValrianTue, 01 Jan 2013 18:35:25 -0500http://linuxexchange.org/questions/2978/how-to-determine-the-linux-flavour-of-my-box/3003http://linuxexchange.org/questions/2978/how-to-determine-the-linux-flavour-of-my-box/2983<p>Beside the excellent link that KJ4TIP posted, on modern systems with an up to date udev or systemd, you might also find <a href="http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/os-release.html">/etc/os-release</a> file with the basic distribution info. That might not be true on an embedded system, though.</p> <p>Some distros also include <a href="http://linux.die.net/man/1/lsb_release">lsb_release</a> utility.</p>bockeSun, 02 Dec 2012 02:42:35 -0500http://linuxexchange.org/questions/2978/how-to-determine-the-linux-flavour-of-my-box/2983http://linuxexchange.org/questions/2978/how-to-determine-the-linux-flavour-of-my-box/2980<p>Try the command: cat /proc/version</p>arochesterFri, 30 Nov 2012 12:01:14 -0500http://linuxexchange.org/questions/2978/how-to-determine-the-linux-flavour-of-my-box/2980http://linuxexchange.org/questions/2978/how-to-determine-the-linux-flavour-of-my-box/2979<p>See <a href="http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Admin/release-files.html">this list of distro release version files</a>. If one of the files on that list exists, that should tell you what distro it is, and the contents of the file should tell you what version of that distro you're running.</p>KJ4TIPThu, 29 Nov 2012 20:23:44 -0500http://linuxexchange.org/questions/2978/how-to-determine-the-linux-flavour-of-my-box/2979