How do I know what version of Ubuntu I am using?

[Jerubaal]

I installed Feisty from cd and have always done my updates. Does that mean I now have 9.04 installed? I never really pay attention to what the updates are, but occasionally get a message asking whether I want to keep my existing menu.lst settings, which I do. Would this be when the version changes?

[CLomax]

System -> About Ubuntu

[~sHyLoCk~]

I installed Feisty from cd and have always done my updates. Does that mean I now have 9.04 installed? I never really pay attention to what the updates are, but occasionally get a message asking whether I want to keep my existing menu.lst settings, which I do. Would this be when the version changes?

What's the output of

lsb_release -a

[mhurst102282]

If you are just doing updates and didn't do any upgrades you are still using 7.04.

[~sHyLoCk~]

If you are just doing updates and didn't do any upgrades you are still using 7.04.

True besides you need to upgrade to the immediate next release and not directly to any other future release! E.g.-> You need to upgrade to 7.10 first from 7.04 before you can upgrade to 8.04

[Jerubaal]

I'm at work (*******) so will have to check when I get home. I recall changing the desktop image from hardy back to the elephant hide, so I must have got that far.

Thanks for the all the swift replies!

[credobyte]

To check Ubuntu version, open terminal and type in:

uname -a

uname has a few more arguments, so .. check manpages - might be useful

[moredhel]

To check Ubuntu version, open terminal and type in:

uname -a

uname has a few more arguments, so .. check manpages - might be useful

The best part of using uname is that it's distro-agnostic where as lsb_release might not exist in other distros.

[~sHyLoCk~]

To check Ubuntu version, open terminal and type in:

uname -a

uname has a few more arguments, so .. check manpages - might be useful

That's not gonna give the Codename or version afaik! Atleast it doesn't for me.

shy@z$ uname -a
Linux shy 2.6.28-13-generic #45-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jun 30 09:49:51 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[moredhel]

That's not gonna give the Codename or version afaik! Atleast it doesn't for me.

shy@z$ uname -a
Linux shy 2.6.28-13-generic #45-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jun 30 09:49:51 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Huh. Well you could work it out from the kernel release