What Linux distribution am I running?


Here is how you can find out when logged in through SSH:

uname -a

This generally won’t tell you as much as you’d like.

cat /proc/version

This will generally tell you more than you’d like.

Once you know that you are running Red Hat for example, you can get to the point with:

cat /etc/redhat-release

Or on Debian:

cat /etc/debian_version