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A better way to find your BIOS version in Linux

Run this awesome command as root:
dd if=/dev/mem bs=32768 skip=31 count=1 | strings -n 10 | grep -i bios
Also, you can use dmidecode, but this can vary on motherboards what the search string is. On my machine right now:
phil@phil:~$ sudo dmidecode -s bios-version
ASUS M2NPV-VM ACPI BIOS Revision 1103