How to find out what version your red hat-flavored distro is
2006-10-05 10:48:55
"uname -a" tells you what kernel you have. But sometimes one needs to know what distribution you are running: Fedora Core X, CentOS X.X, etc.
On Red Hat systems, simply:
% cat /etc/redhat-release CentOS release 4.4 (Final) %