Get the basic system information

There are some commands you can use to determine basic information of your machine such as kernel version, hardware information and others. The following command lines shows what they’ll return when executed;

$ cat /proc/version = "It returns a full string of information"

$ uname -m = "The result of the machine's number"

$ uname -r = "Show the version of the kernel"

$ uname -n = "Returns the local domain name"

$ uname -s = "Will show the system name"

$ uname -p = "It tells you the type and name of the processor"

$ uname -a = "Will show all the information above and also the date and time of the system"