How to find out what version of Ubuntu or Debian you are running

published Nov 09, 2011 06:13 by admin ( last modified Nov 09, 2011 06:13 )

On these two distributions of Linux, you can type:

cat /etc/issue

On Ubuntu, but not Debian, you can also type:

cat /etc/lsb-release

...and you will get more verbose version information.

Tested on Ubuntu 10.10 and Debian 4 and 5 (apparently :-)

I have recently installed ubuntu 11.04. My friend just asked me what beta I am using. How can I find out?