Determining type of Linux machine
I want to figure out what type of Red Hat Linux machine I am using. Is there a file on my system I can look at?
cat /etc/*-release
Should be what you are looking for.
uname -a will do it, and has the benefit of working on almost all distros and showing you other system info too.
In addition, you can try looking at /proc/version if your system has it.
If it's recent enough:
lsb_release -a
Should give you some good information.
Right you can use lsb_release -a, or may be:
cat /etc/issue; uname -a