how to find distribution name

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Subject: how to find distribution name
From: Sanjay Debian <sanjay.debian@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2005 20:09:46 -0500
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Hi,

I am part developer and part sys admin. But a very simple question by my manager tricked me.
question is, How do you find out name of the Linux distribution?

Well please don't tell me to start X. If I ssh to a Linux server then how would I know what distribution it is? "uname -a" does not tell me that.

May be a silly questions, but I am baffled nonetheless.

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