silly-uname

Use this Perl script (uname.pl) to show the name of your Linux kernel, as it appears in the Makefile. Run it by itself and it just calls uname. Run it with the --silly command line switch to display the kernel name, e.g.: $ ./uname.plLinux$ ./uname.pl --silly2.6.26 Rotary Wombat The script uses the Wiki entry for the List of Linux kernel names to get the required info (i.e., it does not presume that the kernel sources - and the Makefile - are locally available).

uname.pl