How to find out which Linux distribution I'm logged on to

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Published on 2010-03-04T12:48:38Z Indexed on 2010/04/28 21:48 UTC
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Hi Linux gurus,

Is there a command for finding out the distribution of the OS I'm logged on to through SSH? uname can be used to print a whole lot of info, but apparently not the distribution (e.g. RedHat, Ubuntu etc.) nor the version of that distribution.

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