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Re: [PLUG] Determining the underlying distro
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- From: "Douglas Muth" <doug.muth@gmail.com>
- To: "Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List" <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>
- Subject: Re: [PLUG] Determining the underlying distro
- Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 13:12:46 -0400
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On 6/12/07, K.S. Bhaskar <bhaskar@bhaskars.com> wrote:
We currently have an extensive automated regression test suite that runs on
multiple Linux distros, including RH, straight Debian, and [K]ubuntu, with
SuSE to follow shortly. Is there an easy way to check what the underlying
Linux distribution is? I suppose when installing the OS, we could create a
/etc/distro, but that seems so... well I am not sure what the word is, maybe
"uncool".
I don't know if there is a distro-independent way of figuring it out,
but I can tell you that RedHat and CentOS distros put the name and
version number of the release in /etc/redhat-release.
Ubuntu systems use /etc/lsb-release to hold the distro data.
I do not have any knowledge of what other distros may use.
-- Doug
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