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Girdhar Singh Rathore
Girdhar Singh Rathore

Reputation: 5585

explain uname -a command on linux? How to find vender's name of OS?

I am facing problem to find output the Operating system name and version number on linux system. I hit a command uname -a , but i can't understand the output of this command, can anybody please explain the below output and help me to find the operating system name and version?

$ uname -a
Linux ABC007 2.6.32-573.3.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Aug 10 09:44:54 EDT 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

I need to find the Vender name of OS, like Intel, Redhat etc. Any command to do so?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 5701

Answers (3)

sudhir kumar mishra
sudhir kumar mishra

Reputation: 116

man uname
>for finding out os-name
cat/etc/os-relase

Upvotes: 0

enfinet
enfinet

Reputation: 840

You can use below command to print the only operating system name and version or Release info:

lsb_release -a

Command Output:(Currently running Ubuntu)

Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS
Release:        12.04    
Codename:       precise

Upvotes: 4

Zermingore
Zermingore

Reputation: 753

from the man page:

DESCRIPTION Print certain system information. With no OPTION, same as -s.

-a, --all print all information, in the following order, except omit -p and -i if unknown:

-s, --kernel-name print the kernel name

-n, --nodename print the network node hostname

-r, --kernel-release print the kernel release

-v, --kernel-version print the kernel version

-m, --machine print the machine hardware name

-p, --processor print the processor type or "unknown"

-i, --hardware-platform print the hardware platform or "unknown"

-o, --operating-system print the operating system

So, in your case uname -a output is:

Linux ABC007 2.6.32-573.3.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Aug 10 09:44:54 EDT 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

  • kernel: Linux
  • Network node hostname: ABC007
  • Kernel release: 2.6.32-573.3.1.el6.x86_64
  • Kernel version: #1 SMP Mon Aug 10 09:44:54 EDT 2015
  • Machine hardware name: x86_64
  • Processor type: x86_64
  • Hardware platform: x86_64
  • Operating system: GNU/Linux

Upvotes: 7

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