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Re: [PLUG] Determining the underlying distro
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On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 08:47:05PM +0200, sean finney wrote:
> one of the things the LSB was supposed to solve is problems like this.
> however, like pretty much the rest of the LSB specs, it never really got
> adopted by many, and by others the implementations are only partial. for
> example, on debian (and ubuntu i suppose), you can do:
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> rangda[/home/sean] :) lsb_release -a
This appears to be available on recent Red Hat releases, as well:
$ lsb_release -a
LSB Version: :core-3.0-ia32:core-3.0-noarch:graphics-3.0-ia32:graphics-3.0-noarch
Distributor ID: RedHatEnterpriseES
Description: Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 4 (Nahant Update 3)
Release: 4
Codename: NahantUpdate3
-mct
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