How to Find Out What Linux Distribution You Are Using

Sep 17th, 2013

How to known what Linux Distribution I am using now.
All right, run this command and you could get what you need in from the output result

19:12:17-androidyue~/github/octopress (master)$ cat /etc/*-release
Fedora release 17 (Beefy Miracle)
NAME=Fedora
VERSION="17 (Beefy Miracle)"
ID=fedora
VERSION_ID=17
PRETTY_NAME="Fedora 17 (Beefy Miracle)"
ANSI_COLOR="0;34"
CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:17"
Fedora release 17 (Beefy Miracle)
Fedora release 17 (Beefy Miracle)