Question

1.  Type “uname –a” to show the Linux kernel version that has been installed.

            Provide the output, and for each field in the uname –a output, explain what the field means.

Answer 1

uname command in linux

The command uname is used to display the information about the system.

The general syntax is

uname [OPTIONS]

Output of $ uname -a

• -a : prints all the system information in the followinf order: kernel name, network node host name, kernel release date, kernel version, machine hardware name, hardware platform, type of processor, hardware platform, operating system.

The output will display as;

From this output we can understand

1. Kernel name: Linux

2. Network node host name: robin-Lenovo-G500s

3. kernel release date: 4.15.0-74-generic

4. kernel version: #84-Ubuntu SMP Thu Dec 19 08:06:28 UTC 2019

5. machine hardware name: x86_64

6. type of processor: x86_64

7. hardware platform: x86_64

8. operating system: GNU/Linux

If you are more interested in this topic type command uname --help, more informations are available.