Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (6210 mails)

[Pascal Bleser <pascal.bleser@xxxxxxxxx>]

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Ken Schneider wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-10-17 at 23:27 +0200, Pascal Bleser wrote:
>> Frank.Pikelner@xxxxxxxxxxx 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
>>
> How about every distribution just call it /etc/release or is that too
> easy?

It definately would be much too easy ;)

Well, it doesn't help. We could start with SUSE and ask the devs to include such a file, then talk
with Fedora, Mandriva, Debian, Ubuntu, Gentoo, Knoppix, and a few dozen others.
It still wouldn't help.
Because the file is not included in past releases ;)

cheers
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