If you run Linux Mint and are looking for tutorials you often find better results googling for “How to do <x> in Ubuntu <version>” (where Ubuntu version is the base distribution that Mint is built on) than “How to do <x> in Mint <version>”.
I have a few machines, and don’t always remember which is running what.
Running lsb_release -a in a term will return your distribution name – but then you still need to look the Ubuntu base version up. A quick google didn’t turn up a handy table mapping Mint name and number to its Ubuntu base version name and number, so I made one:
| Mint Version | Mint Name | Ubuntu Version | Ubuntu Name | Supported Until |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | Nadia | 12.10 | Quantal Quetzal | April 2014 |
| 13 (LTS) | Maya | 12.04 | Precise Pangolin | April 2017 |
| 12 | Lisa | 11.10 | Oneiric Ocelot | April 2013 |
| 11 | Katya | 11.04 | Natty Narwhal | October 2012 |
| 10 | Julia | 10.10 | Maverick Meerkat | April 2012 |
| 9 (LTS) | Isadora | 10.04 | Lucid Lynx | April 2013 |
BTW, if you want to see what your kernel version is, run uname -a.
