How to find out your version of Ubuntu (friendly name)
on Tuesday 6th January, 2009 Gabe speculated thusly…So we all know we can use uname -a to find out the kernel version, but which kernel matches up with which Ubuntu release? I for one cannot remember all the permutations. If you want to get the name of the version of Ubuntu that you are running an alternative command can help:
lsb_release -a
Which gives me the output:
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 8.04.1
Release: 8.04
Codename: hardy
Easy! I’m running Hardy Heron!