[PLUG] Checking Linux Flavor

David Pool dpool at hevanet.com
Mon Jul 11 23:12:12 UTC 2005


On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 15:47 -0700, Steve D... wrote:
> On 7/11/05, Terry Griffin <griffint at pobox.com> wrote:
> > If the distro is LSB compatible *and* if the LSB utilities are installed
> > you can do this:
> > 
> >     lsb_release -d
> 
> YMMV...  It seems a bit suspect on an older SuSE box.  
> 
> user at host:~/> cat /etc/SuSE-release
> SuSE SLES-8 (i386)
> VERSION = 8.1
> user at host:~/> lsb_release -d
> Description:    UnitedLinux 1.0 (i586)
> 
>   It doesn't work at all on a standard FC2 box.  I don't have an FC3
> box handy.

Works on FC3:

lsb_release -d
Description:    Fedora Core release 3 (Heidelberg)

Nice to see FC become more compliant :-)

d




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