Wednesday, July 29, 2009

uname

uname is a program that prints the name, version and other details about the current machine and the operating system running on it.

Usage
All the commands work in terminal
  1. uname -a or uname --all print all information
  2. uname -s or uname --kernel-name print the kernel name
  3. uname -n or uname --nodename print the network node hostname
  4. uname -r or uname --kernel-release print the kernel release
  5. uname -v or uname --kernel-version print the kernel version
  6. uname -m or uname --machine print the machine hardware name
  7. uname -p or uname --processor print the processor type
  8. uname -i or uname --hardware-platform print the hardware platform
  9. uname -o or uname --operating-system print the operating system
  10. uname --help display this help and exit
  11. uname --version output version information and exit

Check man uname in terminal for complete documentation of the program. Check this link for more details

Tuesday, July 28, 2009

A blog to share my experience with Ubuntu

Nothing interesting here, just starting a blog to share my experience using ubuntu, a linux distro based on Debian GNU/Linux..