[PLUG] Checking Linux Flavor

Garl Grigsby badd_karma at comcast.net
Tue Jul 12 00:45:48 UTC 2005


David Pool wrote:

>On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 15:47 -0700, Steve D... wrote:
>  
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>>On 7/11/05, Terry Griffin <griffint at pobox.com> wrote:
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>>>If the distro is LSB compatible *and* if the LSB utilities are installed
>>>you can do this:
>>>
>>>    lsb_release -d
>>>      
>>>
>
>Works on FC3:
>
>lsb_release -d
>Description:    Fedora Core release 3 (Heidelberg)
>
>Nice to see FC become more compliant :-)
>
>d
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It works on CentOS too:

grigsby at nfsets1 /home/grigsby $ lsb_release -d
Description:    CentOS release 4.1 (Final)

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