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Sometimes we'll need to log in to remote Linux machines. And with just a command line to look at…

It can be hard to know exactly what Linux distribution is running here. How is the operating system called? Ubuntu, Debian, or Red Hat? And if it's Ubuntu, what version of Ubuntu?

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  • How to find out the name of the Linux operating system. Or, to be more accurate, the operating system based on the Linux kernel. Is it Ubuntu, CentOS, Debian, or something else?

  • How to find out the version of the Linux operating system. Is it Ubuntu 22.04, or 24.04? CentOS 8, or CentOS 9?

  • How to find out the version of the Linux kernel powering the operating system. Is it Linux kernel 6.12.11, or something older / newer?

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