How do you tell whether you are 2009.0, 2009.1, 2009.2 or ?

[k88king]

How do you tell whether you are 2009.0, 2009.1, 2009.2 or ?
and
apart from the standard way to update/upgrade via synaptic, reload etc is there any other way to upgrade ?

[Old-Polack]

How do you tell whether you are 2009.0, 2009.1, 2009.2 or ?
and
apart from the standard way to update/upgrade via synaptic, reload etc is there any other way to upgrade ?

It doesn't matter what you originally installed, if you are fully updated, you are on 2010. This installation was originally from a TR5 test release, before the 2009 final release. It's fully upgraded so is now 2010, in it's current form.

You can upgrade through apt-get directly, but that is still the same as using Synaptic, which is just a front end GUI application for apt. Unless you know exactly what you are doing with apt-get, you can make a mess of things much easier than with Synaptic, which is why Synaptic is the officially supported way to do your upgrades.

[k88king]

so in theory I'm up to date.
How is KDE4 going to be handled, will we get a choice ?
For the forseeable future I would prefer to stay with 3.5.

[Old-Polack]

so in theory I'm up to date.
How is KDE4 going to be handled, will we get a choice ?
For the forseeable future I would prefer to stay with 3.5.

I'm still running KDE3 and will continue to do so for as long as I can. KDE4 will be the default with the new 2010 release, and i don't know what will happen to KDE3 once that is released. We can only wait and see.

[Riki]

And you can check that you are on 2010 hitting PCC and then Help>About. It also shows in Verbose when booting up.

[pinoc]

or open a terminal and enter:

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cat /etc/pclinuxos-release