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about linux installed in my machine

inventsekar_1 — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 09:22:26 GMT

hi,
i am new to linux and my linux gives output to "uname -a":

Linux hostname 2.2.24-6.2.3ABCenterprise #1 SMP Wed Aug 13 10:53:39 EDT 2003 i686 unknown

i would like ot know which linux is this?
i think its not suse or redhat or something. my company's own linux. is that correct?
and how to find out the man pages or other info...ie, from which website?

Re: about linux installed in my machine

Alexander Chuzhoy — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 09:49:35 GMT

Although you think it's not redhat, just try:
cat /etc/redhat-release

as for man:
man
gives you the info regarding that subject, while subject can be an executable name, daemon name or in some cases a config file name.
As written in the information of man package: "The man package should be installed on your system because it is the
primary way to find documentation on a Linux system."

Re: about linux installed in my machine

George Liu_4 — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 11:56:28 GMT

try

cat /etc/issue

Re: about linux installed in my machine

Ivan Krastev — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 12:31:02 GMT

2.2.24-6.2.3 - this looks like Redhat 6.2

ivan

Re: about linux installed in my machine

Atul Gautam — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 09:26:05 GMT

Sekar....

It seems to be a Linux 6.2 or 7 with the kernel version 2.2

Rather than working on this linux, I would recommend Linux kernel version 2.4/2.6. For that you can download or get RHL 9 or any other flavour of linux having the above mentioned kernel versions.

Atul

Re: about linux installed in my machine

Matti_Kurkela — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 16:13:24 GMT

The kernel might be compiled locally, and the person that compiled the kernel could have added any designations he/she wished to the "uname -a" version string. The rest of the distribution might still be "standard" RedHat or whatever.

If this is indeed RedHat 6.2, it's been out of support for a long time. Even RedHat 9's official support ended in 2004.

I'd *strongly* recommend you to consider updating to something more modern, so that you can get security updates easily.

Note that at the time of RedHat 9, RedHat begun the RedHat *Enterprise* Linux series with version numbers starting again from the beginning. It is currently at version 4.