Re: Re: Determine Fedora Version

[Leon Stringer]

>  From: Andrew Farris <lordmorgul(a)gmail.com&gt;
>  Date: 2008/02/28 Thu PM 11:40:33 GMT
>  To: For testers of Fedora Core development releases
>  	<fedora-test-list(a)redhat.com&gt;
>  Subject: Re: Determine Fedora Version
>  
>  Leon Stringer wrote:
>  > But then I thought, how does a user determine what version of Fedora they're
> using? If I do System->About Fedora I get  explanatory text but nothing about the
> version.
>  This is a very good point.  I suggest you take the idea and file an RFE bug 
>  against the component 'fedora-release-notes', this is that package that supplies
>
>  the 'About Fedora' system menu item
> (/usr/share/applications/about-fedora.desktop). 
1. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=435394

2. 
> > If Gnome:
> >
> > Applications -> System Tools -> File Browser
> >
> > Double click File System
> > Double Click etc
> > Double Click redhat-release
> > 
> > :-) 
   :-) indeed!

3.
> > Around F7, we[1] wrote an "About this computer" app
> > called 'system- summary'. It's available in the repos for
> > F8 and rawhide. It gives: 
   Yes, that's the sort of thing.

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Determine Fedora Version

[David Mack]

After installing system-summary via yum:

Applications -> System Tools -> About This Computer

Gotta love things that make themselves available through gnome menus
without being asked.

Dave 

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>  Leon Stringer
>  Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 4:10 PM
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>  Subject: Re: Re: Determine Fedora Version
>  
>  > From: Andrew Farris <lordmorgul(a)gmail.com&gt;
>  > Date: 2008/02/28 Thu PM 11:40:33 GMT
>  > To: For testers of Fedora Core development releases
>  > 	<fedora-test-list(a)redhat.com&gt;
>  > Subject: Re: Determine Fedora Version
>  > 
>  > Leon Stringer wrote:
>  > > But then I thought, how does a user determine what 
>  version of Fedora they're using? If I do System->About Fedora 
>  I get  explanatory text but nothing about the version.
>  > This is a very good point.  I suggest you take the idea and 
>  file an RFE bug 
>  > against the component 'fedora-release-notes', this is that 
>  package that supplies 
>  > the 'About Fedora' system menu item 
>  (/usr/share/applications/about-fedora.desktop).
>  
>  1. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=435394
>  
>  2. 
>  >> If Gnome:
>  >>
>  >> Applications -> System Tools -> File Browser
>  >>
>  >> Double click File System
>  >> Double Click etc
>  >> Double Click redhat-release
>  >> 
>  >> :-)
>     :-) indeed!
>  
>  3.
>  >> Around F7, we[1] wrote an "About this computer" app
>  >> called 'system- summary'. It's available in the repos for
>  >> F8 and rawhide. It gives:
>     Yes, that's the sort of thing.
>  
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Determine Fedora Version

[Matthias Clasen]

On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 16:30 -0800, David Mack wrote:
>  After installing system-summary via yum:
>  
>  Applications -> System Tools -> About This Computer
>  
>  Gotta love things that make themselves available through gnome menus
>  without being asked. 
No need to install anything:

Applications > System Tools > System Monitor, go to the System tab.

Determine Fedora Version

[Andrew Farris]

Matthias Clasen wrote:
>  On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 16:30 -0800, David Mack wrote:
> > After installing system-summary via yum:
> >
> > Applications -> System Tools -> About This Computer
> >
> > Gotta love things that make themselves available through gnome menus
> > without being asked.
>  
>  No need to install anything:
>  
>  Applications > System Tools > System Monitor, go to the System tab. 
A 'System Monitor' is not what one would expect to be the source for what 
operating system is installed... it just happens to include this tab because it 
was apparently not available elsewhere and got stuffed into that tool.

Do you open the Task Manager as the primary source for info about which OS you 
have installed in the Windows world?  No, you open the System control panel (the 
most centralized source of information regarding the system and hardware that 
exists there).

'About this computer' is sensible.  Looking for your OS version in a system 
monitor is not (it just happens to be there).

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