Knowing Currently running Kernel image version and GCC version used to compile the Kernel
June 25th, 2008
The command used to find the $cat /proc/version
Eg..
$ cat /proc/version
Linux version 2.6.24-16-generic (buildd@palmer) (gcc version 4.2.3 (Ubuntu 4.2.3-2ubuntu7)) #1 SMP Thu Apr 10 13:23:42 UTC 2008
Similarly for knowing the CPU information use the command
$cat /proc/cpuinfo
If you are using a Core 2 duo processor informations of both the processors will be listed separatly. Check it out…..
Similarly /proc/ directory has many files use cat command to many information line meory info, swap space informations, etc using appropriate files.
