Debian release version

[Subliminal Aura]

Time to play with this inferior operating system....

First off I need to need to know what version I have installed.

cat /etc/debian_version
3.1

Ie Sarge but whats the difference in release versions ?

3.1r1
3.1r2
3.1r3
3.1r4
3.1r5

???? !!! How do I find out ?

 

[Mujja]

The Sarge changelog

 

[Subliminal Aura]

The Sarge changelog

Mate this doesn't really solve the problem as to finding out what installer was used to build my system.

r1 ?

r2 ?

r3 ?

r4 ?

or maybe r5 ?

 

[likwid]

How on earth do you figure Debian to an inferior operating system? Compared with what? kubuntu? Give me a break..

 

[M0KUJ1N]

Its a bit of a moot point anyway as the first time you run apt-get dist update you will be brought bang up to date anyway surely?

 

[Subliminal Aura]

Its a bit of a moot point anyway as the first time you run apt-get dist update you will be brought bang up to date anyway surely?

yeh but the OS I have has a varying level of patches some from r4 r5 and r6 what is pretty difficult to work out is one simple question....

" What was the version that was first used to install the OS "

Surely it can be answered by you lot of debian gurus

 

[Subliminal Aura]

How on earth do you figure Debian to an inferior operating system? Compared with what? kubuntu? Give me a break..

Note how I started this thread :

" Time to play with this inferior operating system.... "

Time to play : Implying my lack of experience with this OS and hence with the lack of experience comes the l33t remark that because one doesn't know one shuns it

 

[likwid]

"inferior operating system" : implying ...

lsb_release -a

Will return the version you're running.

 

[Deleted member 651465]

How can you install an OS without knowing which version you've just used?