How to find out what Ubuntu version a system is running

There are two ways:

# cat /etc/issue
Ubuntu 9.10 \n \l

or

# lsb_release -a
Distributor ID:    Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 9.10
Release:    9.10
Codename:    karmic

The latter is slower but gives more information.

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