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It is the rare install indeed that won't be well-described by the command line calls you have identified... on the remote chance you don't have an /etc/issue you should be able to grep dmesg for some keyword like "version" ... and if lspci doesn't tell you the exact motherboard you have, you can probably get enough info to Google with... but I'd be surprised if you have to go off-board for 1 out of 100 arbitrary installs. Still, it would be nice if there was a 1 stop shop, maybe a web page, where you could type in a kernel name and it would tell you the distro is most likely associated with. Take, for instance, root at J1:~# uname -a Linux J1 3.0.0-9-generic #14-Ubuntu SMP Tue Aug 23 17:02:50 UTC 2011 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux since it is Ubuntu and I have a date, I should be able to divine the distro... but 3.0.0-9-generic is unique to 11.10... and noone ever dowrevs a kernel, do they? (seriously, do they? I've never seen it)
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