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/LinuxI need to find the Vender name of OS, like Intel, Redhat etc. Any command to do so?
3 Answers
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
You can use below command to print the only operating system name and version or Release info:
lsb_release -aCommand Output:(Currently running Ubuntu)
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS
Release: 12.04
Codename: preciseman uname
>for finding out os-name
cat/etc/os-relase
