{"id":1127,"date":"2011-10-16T23:17:21","date_gmt":"2011-10-17T04:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=1127"},"modified":"2011-10-17T00:55:49","modified_gmt":"2011-10-17T05:55:49","slug":"finding-linux-distro-release-info","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=1127","title":{"rendered":"Finding linux distro release info"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Fedora Core: \/etc\/fedora-release<\/p>\n<p>Red Hat: \/etc\/redhat-release, \/etc\/redhat_version (rare)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/linuxmafia.com\/faq\/Admin\/release-files.html\">release-files<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I got confused between two Centos VMs.\u00a0 I had thought one Centos VM that I have running DNS was Centos 5.4 and the new one was Centos 5.6.\u00a0 When I saw that they both used a 2.6.18.* kernel I got confused.\u00a0 Fedora Core is using 2.6.35 and greater.\u00a0 This led me to check the distro version upon which I didn&#8217;t get it out of uname -a or dmesg.\u00a0 Searching the intertubes and I got the above answer.\u00a0 Apparently the VM I thought was 5.4 is really 5.5.<\/p>\n<p>It is interesting that Centos, which tracks RHEL, doesn&#8217;t make too many radical changes to the kernel.<\/p>\n<p>Update: It should be noted that I wouldn&#8217;t have noticed the kernel versions had I not tried to compile and install my own kernel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fedora Core: \/etc\/fedora-release Red Hat: \/etc\/redhat-release, \/etc\/redhat_version (rare) via release-files. I got confused between two Centos VMs.\u00a0 I had thought one Centos VM that I have running DNS was Centos 5.4 and the new one was Centos 5.6.\u00a0 When I &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=1127\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[37,217,28],"class_list":["post-1127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technical","tag-centos","tag-kernel","tag-linux-command"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1127"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1130,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1127\/revisions\/1130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}