[svlug] How to tell which flavor of Linux is installed?

[Rick Moen]

Quoting mark weisler (mark.weisler at comcast.net):

> Thanks for posting these useful tidbits.
> As you see below, I tried uname -r and learned only about the kernel and the 
> ppc platform, not the distro. Not a complaint, just an observation. This may 
> be a fluke pertaining to ppc or ubuntu (running kde).

No, that's normal.  "uname -a" (all) will show you more about the
kernel, but nothing beyond the kernel.

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