In this tutorial, I would like to talk to you about your Linux distribution and how you can find that in which distribution you were working on.
Just execute lsb_release -a.
On Debian:
$ lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Debian Description: Debian GNU/Linux testing (stretch) Release: testing Codename: stretch
On Ubuntu:
$ lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS Release: 14.04 Codename: trusty
In case when you don’t have lsb_release installed you may want to try some guessing, for example, there is a file
/etc/issue that often contains distribution name. For example, on ubuntu:
$ cat /etc/issue Ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS \n \l
Don’t use file /etc/debian_version because its contents do not match the distribution name!
Note that this will also work on non-Debian-family distributions like Fedora, RHEL, or openSUSE — but that lsb_release may not be installed.
