Comments on: Find which Debian or ubuntu Linux Version you are running

By: labilbe

labilbe — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 15:44:00 +0000

Thank you!
Exactly what I needed.

By: Dragon Slayer

Dragon Slayer — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 05:38:48 +0000

Or you could run this
http://programs.rcrnet.net/#version

By: Darin

Darin — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 18:47:05 +0000

If you just need the version number (for scripting, etc), you can do something like this:

VERSION=`lsb_release -sd | cut -c 8-`
echo Configuring for Ubuntu ${VERSION}…

By: Felipe

Felipe — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 12:57:14 +0000

I’ve found much better the firefox way rather than the console one.

While the /etc/debian_version file just says : “testing/unstable”

the other one gives me a lot of info about my OS.

By: Ionut

Ionut — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 16:29:46 +0000

Firefox’s About dialog also contains the operating system:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071204 Ubuntu/7.10 (gutsy) Firefox/2.0.0.11

By: Darshak

Darshak — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 11:46:21 +0000

Not sure if it always works, but Firefox’s default home page contains a welcome message with the version number.