Hi everyone, I'm finally back from my holidays, and simply cannot wait to share some more Unix tips with all of you!
Today I'll talk a bit more about yet another way of learning version information about your Linux OS: the /proc/version file. I mentioned it briefly in one of the previous posts, but would like to finish the explanations.
What you can learn from /proc/version
This file will not show you the name of the actual OS release, but will instead give you specifics about the version of Linux kernel used in your distribution, and confirm the version of a GCC compiler used to build it.
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