The updates are limited to qualified critical security fixes and business-impacting urgent issues. In this phase there are no new functionality and hardware enablement planned for availability.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 is now in the Maintenance Support 2 phase of the product life cycle. To be specific we will be upgrading a RHEL 6.10 to the latest RHEL, which as of this article writing is 8.3. It displays LSB (Linux Standard Base) information about the Linux distribution.This article is created to aid in performing an in-place upgrade from RHEL 6 to RHEL 8 system. The lsb_release command is a helpful utility to find out information about our Linux installation. Linux 4.18.86_64 #1 SMP Thu Apr 29 08:54: x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Check Redhat version from /proc/versionĪnother way to check Redhat version is using cat /proc/version.This command will list the version of the Linux kernel, the version of gcc, the Redhat version, and the time of kernel compilation. This command is used to print our redhat system information such as kernel version and release name, network hostname, machine hardware name, processor architecture, hardware platform and the operating system. We can use uname command to check Redhat version.

REDHAT_SUPPORT_PRODUCT=”Red Hat Enterprise Linux” REDHAT_BUGZILLA_PRODUCT=”Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8″ PRETTY_NAME=”Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 (Ootpa)”ĬPE_NAME=”cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8.4:GA” Use the following command to know the OS version on our old system: If we are running a very old Linux distribution then we might not be able to use any of the above commands. It will list the Redhat OS distribution name and release version information. All we need is to open the terminal and type cat /etc/os-release. You can easily get Redhat version using cat /etc/os-release command. Commands to Check Redhat versionĬheck Redhat version from /etc/os-release In this article, we will mostly focus on the command line methods which can be used to check the Redhat version. In Linux, CLI is preferred over GUI as it provides more control over the OS. The OS version of a Linux distribution can be determined by using the command-line interface as well as a graphical user interface.

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