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Login as root by typing

 

su -

 

in a console. Once done type cat /etc/redhat-release

 

you should see something like this:-

 

 

[root@localhost root]# cat /etc/redhat-release

Fedora Core release 1 (Yarrow).

 

That tells me that I am using Fedora Core release 1 on this linux box.