how to know OS release?

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how to know OS release?..

Answer / ajayaghosh vl

I am giving the description of all the commands which
mentioned avove
1) /etc/release is the right file to look the OS release .

bash-3.00$ more /etc/release
Solaris 10 8/07 s10s_u4wos_12b SPARC
Copyright 2007 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All
Rights Reserved.
Use is subject to license terms.
Assembled 16 August 2007

2) ' uname -r ' Will give you the Kernel version .

bash-3.00$ uname -r
5.10

3) ' uname -a ' wil give all information which can get
from ' uname ' command including hostname , kernel patch
version , which make ( Sun 4u /Sun 4v ) , which H/W etc....
bash-3.00$ uname -a
SunOS bixiqas01 5.10 Generic_120011-14 sun4v sparc
SUNW,SPARC-Enterprise-T2000

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how to know OS release?..

Answer / ramanji.gundala

/etc/release file shows

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how to know OS release?..

Answer / kiranraj

uname -r

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how to know OS release?..

Answer / raviga006

uname -a

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