Determining Version of SUSE Linux 10.0

Novell Cool Solutions: Tip
By Joe Harmon

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Applies To:

• SUSE Linux 10.0

Solution

If you cat the contents of /etc/SUSE-release, it will tell you which version you are running. If you notice in the OSS example, it lists OSS at the end. The retail version does not.

# cat /etc/SUSE-release

Example with retail version


Example with OSS version

Reader Comments

• A good time-saving tip
• very useful to know
• Finally...after half a day searching on the web there is an article to tell me what version of the SUSE release is installed. It really shouldn't be this hard!

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