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A revision number for a particular piece of software in a specific state.

Software versioning is the process of assigning either unique version names or unique version numbers to unique states of computer software. Within a given version number category (major, minor), these numbers are generally assigned in increasing order and correspond to new developments in the software. At a fine-grained level, revision control is often used for keeping track of incrementally different versions of electronic information, whether or not this information is actually computer software.

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How to determine CentOS version?

How do I determine the version of a CentOS server without access to any graphical interface? I've tried several commands: # cat /proc/version Linux version 2.6.18-128.el5 ([email protected]) (gcc version 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat…
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How can I tell what version of Linux I'm using?

Often times I will ssh into a new client's box to make changes to their website configuration without knowing much about the server configuration. I have seen a few ways to get information about the system you're using, but are there some standard…
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How do I identify which Linux distro is running?

We have some new hardware in our office which runs its own customized Linux OS. How do I go about figuring which distro it's based on?
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How do I know which version of Debian I'm running?

In a tutorial, I'm prompted "If you are running Squeeze, follow these instructions..." and "If you are running Wheezy, follow these other instructions..." When I run uname, I get the following information: Linux dragon-debian 3.2.0-4-686-pae #1 SMP…
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How can I tell what version of apache I'm running?

I know about the phpinfo() way but is there any other way? I'm using CentOS and I can't find the httpd executable to run httpd -v.
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Why and how are some shared libraries runnable, as though they are executables?

On 32-bit Linux systems, invoking this $ /lib/libc.so.6 and on 64-bit systems this $ /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 in a shell, provides an output like this: GNU C Library stable release version 2.10.1, by Roland McGrath et al. Copyright (C) 2009…
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How can I tell what version of OS X I'm on from the command line?

I frequently find myself SSHing into various OS X machines, and it'd be useful if I could tell what version of OS X I was on when I'm doing that. uname -a doesn't quite work, since Darwin kernel versions don't always change with the rest of the…
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How to know which Linux and which version I am using

When I run cat /proc/version command in terminal, I got below output: Linux version 2.6.18-348.1.1.0.1.el5 ([email protected]) (gcc version 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-54)) #1 SMP Tue Jan 22 16:39:05 PST 2013 If I run lsb_release…
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What C library version does my system use?

How can I tell for sure what userland C library my system uses? Possible reasons to need this information include: There's a gigantic source package I am considering downloading which I'm sure will do proper checks and lists a mininum library…
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How to upgrade Debian stable (Wheezy) to testing (Jessie)?

I downloaded and installed Debian 7 Wheezy, the stable version, but I would like more recent apps and libs so I'd like to switch to testing version (aka Jessie). How do I proceed?
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Where to download Linux Kernel source code of a specific version?

Is there a resource to download a specific kernel version source? For example, I want to get 2.6.36.2 sources to compare with this package and see what changes were introduced?
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How to compare a program's version in a shell script?

Suppose I want to compare gcc version to see whether the system has the minimum version installed or not. To check the gcc version, I executed the following gcc --version | head -n1 | cut -d" " -f4 The output was 4.8.5 So, I wrote a simple if…
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Arch Linux pacman specifying package version

I know that I can define wanted package version in pacman like shown in its manual pacman -S "bash>=3.2". But how do I know what versions are available? I also know that pacman is creating copy of mirrors upon syncing in .db files in…
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How do I check the running kernel version?

While troubleshooting a problem with my ethernet card, I've found that the driver I'm currently using may have some issues with old kernel versions. What command can I use to check the kernel version I am currently running ?
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What are Non-GNU versions of terminal commands?

I thought GNU was the (only) supplier of essential tools whose open-source code powers Linux distributions. However while browsing unix.se, I saw some questions that explicitly state they are dealing with GNU, such as a question on the safety of…
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