Remind me (pls)... Distro Version Discovery

[Adam McGreggor]

On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 11:22:51PM +0100, Oliver Grawert wrote:
> hi,
> On Fr, 2007-11-30 at 19:04 +0000, Adam McGreggor wrote:
> > Heya,
> > 
> > Stupid dumbass question here, which is bugging me, as it's really
> > slipped my mind...
> > 
> > I'm after the app which tells me which *distro* I'm using, and the
> > version; it's not uname(1), and I've seen it posted before, here 
> > (greping 450MB of list-archive just ain't gonna happen).
> > 
> > Anyone know what I'm thinking of? (And I don't want to switch to
> > TTY[0-6]...
> System->About Ubuntu

<sarcasm>
so, erm, where do i type that? ;)
</sarcasm>

(I'm not a fan of GUIs, per se, and that instruction seems to only apply
to Ubuntu, [and whilst this is u-users] I mainly use KDE. Don't like 
Gnome. -- i posted here, as i knew someone on this list had 
previously answered)