nooby wrote:thanks Dennis!
Had no idea that Linux was that compatible with Unix.
For things like that, it will be. Remember, Linus Torvalds began developing the Linux kernel (based on Minix) because he wanted a Unix system to play with, and didn't have the $80,000 or so an AT&T Unix source license cost back then. The utilities and tools that are supplied with Linux are all from the Gnu project, who were trying to make a freely available OS that looked and acted like Unix, and most of the CLI tools are reverse engineered copies of Unix originals. (The Gnu developers also fixed bugs, added extensions, and regularized syntax in the process. Most of the original Unix CLI commands were written by developers at Bell Laboratories to solve particular problems
they had, and there was no real standardization in naming conventions or command line options. It's nice, for example, that in a Gnu utility, <command> -h or --help normally produces a usage message, and -V or --version tends to return version information.)
Linux looks a lot like Unix because it's designed to do so.
But lots of things can look like Unix. AT&T spun off the Unix development effort as Unix system Laboratories, and later sold USL to the SCO origanization, but they gave the Unix
trademark to the Open Group. The Open Group published a set of 1170 specifications (called Spec 1170) defining what Unix was, and any OS that met those specs could call itself Unix, regardless of how it originated. I believe there was at least one Linux distribution that spent the money and took the trouble to craft the distro so it met Spec 1170 and could legitimately call itself Unix. It no longer exists, so being able to put Unix on the label didn't help it.
One could try
uname -a
but that only say Puppypc kernel 2.6.30.5 but not the name that the developer have given it.
could you help my out please
I don't understand what you are asking for. What name are you looking for? The Linux kernel is based on common source code, and any Linux distribution using that release of the source will have largely the same kernel. If I have more than one Linux distribution installed on a PC, my question will be "Which one am I in at the moment?" If I'm in something like a full screen CLI window, that may not be obvious. (Though I normally embed that info in my shell prompt.)
Booted to Ubuntu, "uname -a" returns
Code: Select all
Linux Varda 2.6.31-.19-generic #56-Ubuntu SMP Thu Jan 28 01:26:53 UTC 2010 1586 Gnu/Linux
Booted to Puppy, I see what you saw.
What are you looking for if that's not it? You have multiple Puppies and you don't know which you're in?
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Dennis