Confirming your Linux version or Kernel version

Posted: March 26th, 2018

 

Enter any one of the following commands at the shell prompt to confirm the version of Linux you are using:

 

              cat /etc/os-release

 

              cat /etc/issue

 

To confirm the Kernel version, use either of these two commands:

 

               $ uname -a

 

               $ uname -mrs