alt Hacker NewsProtip, if you have access to the computer: `lsb_release -a` should list both release and codename. This command is not specific to Ubuntu.
Finding the latest release and codename is indeed a research task. I use Wikipedia[1] for that, but I feel like this should be more readily available from the system itself. Perhaps it is, and I just don't know how?
> Protip, if you have access to the computer: `lsb_release -a` should list both release and codename. This command is not specific to Ubuntu.
I typically prefer
which seems to be a little more portable / likely to work out of the box on many distros.