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Catherine Dai
Catherine Dai

Reputation: 573

How to tell what the kernel is from uname -a command?

I have an ec2 instance of which I cannot tell the exact operating system.

I typed in uname -a and it shows:

2.6.18-274.7.1.el5xen #1 SMP Thu Oct 20 17:06:34 EDT 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

It's not indicating whether it's ubuntu, centOS, debian, or others. Anybody have any ideas?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 607

Answers (1)

Ben
Ben

Reputation: 1210

lsb_release is one command to look into. Here's the manpage: http://linux.die.net/man/1/lsb_release

Sample usage:

ben@ubuntu:~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 11.10
Release:    11.10
Codename:   oneiric

Or you can specify just the distributor id:

ben@ubuntu:~$ lsb_release -i
Distributor ID: Ubuntu

Upvotes: 1

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