Re: [PLUG] Determining the underlying distro

[Eric <eric@lucii.org>]

Michael C. Toren wrote:
> 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:
>>
>> 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


And OpenSuSE ...

# lsb_release -a
LSB Version:
core-2.0-noarch:core-3.0-noarch:core-2.0-x86_64:core-3.0-x86_64:desktop-3.1-amd64:desktop-3.1-noarch:graphics-2.0-amd64:graphics-2.0-noarch:graphics-3.1-amd64:graphics-3.1-noarch
Distributor ID: SUSE LINUX
Description:    openSUSE 10.2 (X86-64)
Release:        10.2
Codename:       n/a

Cool.  Learn something new every day :-)

Eric
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