Ever wanted to know the exact name of your installed Linux distribution?

Type this command into shell and find out what Linux distro you are using:

cat /etc/issue

It gives you something like this:

Ubuntu 8.04.1 \n \l

If you don't know the kernel you are running with try this one:

uname -a

It gives you something like this:

Linux machinename 2.6.24-19-generic #1 SMP Wed Jun 4 16:35:01 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux