Question

I’m wondering if there’s a way to determine which version of Linux I’m running (ie differentiate between RHEL4, RHEL5) from within the JVM. I’m just looking for a consistent way to differentiate between the operating systems and their versions.

Answer 1

You can also have a look at lsb_release

lsb_release -a

would give you something like:

cyril@merlin:~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 8.10
Release:    8.10
Codename:   intrepid