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I'd go with this as a first step:

ls /etc/*release

Gentoo, RedHat, Arch & SuSE have a file called e.g. /etc/gentoo-release. Seems to be popular, check this site about release-files.

Debian & Ubuntu should have a /etc/lsb-release which contains release info also, and will show up with the previous command.

Another quick one is uname -rv. If the kernel installed is the stock distro kernel, you'll usuallyusually sometimes find the name in there.

I'd go with this as a first step:

ls /etc/*release

Gentoo, RedHat, Arch & SuSE have a file called e.g. /etc/gentoo-release. Seems to be popular, check this site about release-files.

Debian & Ubuntu should have a /etc/lsb-release which contains release info also, and will show up with the previous command.

Another quick one is uname -rv. If the kernel installed is the stock distro kernel, you'll usually find the name in there.

I'd go with this as a first step:

ls /etc/*release

Gentoo, RedHat, Arch & SuSE have a file called e.g. /etc/gentoo-release. Seems to be popular, check this site about release-files.

Debian & Ubuntu should have a /etc/lsb-release which contains release info also, and will show up with the previous command.

Another quick one is uname -rv. If the kernel installed is the stock distro kernel, you'll usually sometimes find the name in there.

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Mat
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I'd go with this as a first step:

ls /etc/*release

Gentoo, RedHat, Arch & SuSE have a file called e.g. /etc/gentoo-release. Seems to be popular, check this site about release-files.

Debian & Ubuntu should have a /etc/lsb-release which contains release info also, and will show up with the previous command.

Another quick one is uname -rv. If the kernel installed is the stock distro kernel, you'll usually find the name in there.