I understand uname will do the job but I am not sure what and how to grep from the uname's output and i am not sure about the various ps command formats for various OSs.
I've tried installing Linux (SuSE because it's the easiest disc I had on hand) and Windows, and neither can boot. The specific problems are below.
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Which is much more powerful as an operating system:
1. Windows 2000
2. Windows 98
3. Windows XP
4. Windows ME
5. Unix
6. Linux
and why is it much more powerful than the other operating systems that i have mentioned.
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Hello All,
I want to install Linux on my machine, so please tell me one thing which is the best to install-
1.)Red Hat
2.)Cent OS
3.)Red Hat
4.)Ubuntu
5.)Fedora
except that if there is any please tell me. (1 Reply)
Can we know the operating given the IP address or DNS of the host.
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LEARN ABOUT NETBSD
uname
UNAME(3) BSD Library Functions Manual UNAME(3)NAME
uname -- get system identification
LIBRARY
Standard C Library (libc, -lc)
SYNOPSIS
#include <sys/utsname.h>
int
uname(struct utsname *name);
DESCRIPTION
The uname() function stores nul-terminated strings of information identifying the current system into the structure referenced by name.
The utsname structure is defined in the <sys/utsname.h> header file, and contains the following members:
sysname Name of the operating system implementation.
nodename Network name of this machine.
release Release level of the operating system.
version Version level of the operating system.
machine Machine hardware platform.
RETURN VALUES
If uname is successful, 0 is returned, otherwise, -1 is returned and errno is set appropriately.
ERRORS
The uname() function may fail and set errno for any of the errors specified for the library functions sysctl(3).
SEE ALSO uname(1), sysctl(3)STANDARDS
The uname() function conforms to ISO/IEC 9945-1:1990 (``POSIX.1'').
HISTORY
The uname function first appeared in 4.4BSD.
BSD March 30, 2011 BSD