Simple. [What Linux version is on my card]

[pascalbythree]

Does anybody know the raspbian linux command to see what date of the image written on the flash card. So i can see what date/version of linux is currently running on the RPI device.

http://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspbian/images/

Can sombody please help simple?


Greets,

Wouter van Wegen
woutervanwegen@mijnplinq.nl

[FTrevorGowen]

Does anybody know the raspbian linux command to see what date of the image written on the flash card. So i can see what date/version of linux is currently running on the RPI device.
http://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspbian/images/
Can sombody please help simple?
Greets,
Wouter van Wegen
woutervanwegen@mijnplinq.nl

The "date of the image written on the flash card" does not really provide enough (appropriate) information (since, in general, O.S. updates/upgrades may have been performed since the image was written). A good starting point, however, is the output of

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uname -a

As an example of that here is what one of my B+'s (which hasn't been updated for quite some time) is running:

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pi@raspibplus16Gb ~ $ uname -a
Linux raspibplus16Gb 3.12.35+ #730 PREEMPT Fri Dec 19 18:31:24 GMT 2014 armv6l GNU/Linux

ie. quite a old version from December 2014 and also using the 3.12 kernel.
I've also edited your post title to be more meaningful.
Trev.

[ghans]

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cat /boot/issue.txt
lsb_release -a

might also be useful.

ghans

[DougieLawson]

cd /boot
ls -la *.img

[allfox]

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cat /etc/debian_version

More numbers telling the Debian version.

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FIRMWARE_HASH=$(zgrep "* firmware as of" /usr/share/doc/raspberrypi-bootloader/changelog.Debian.gz | head -1 | awk '{ print $5 }')
KERNEL_HASH=$(wget https://raw.github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/$FIRMWARE_HASH/extra/git_hash -O -)
echo $KERNEL_HASH

If you want a specific version, I mean EXACTLY THAT version, these numbers could help.
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