17 Oct
2005
17 Oct
'05
21:43
On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 11:27:24PM +0200, Pascal Bleser wrote:
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Frank.Pikelner@blue-dot.ca wrote: ...
From a developer point of view is there a reliable/consistent way to obtain Linux distribution name and release information?
/etc/SuSE-release /etc/redhat-release /etc/mandrake-release
I asume he wants to know a consistant way across Linux distributions. It would indeed be nice if there where something like /etc/release, even if it only were a symlink, on each and every Linux distro. houghi -- Quote correct (NL) http://www.briachons.org/art/quote/ Zitiere richtig (DE) http://www.afaik.de/usenet/faq/zitieren Quote correctly (EN) http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html