[ale] Foolish Distro ID Question

[Scott Castaline]

Jeff Lightner wrote:
> uname -r gives the kernel release which may or may not have a hint about
> the distro and distro version.  It therefore can't be relied upon for
> the purpose.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
> Scott Castaline
> Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 9:08 AM
> To: John Mills; Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [ale] Foolish Distro ID Question
>
> John Mills wrote:
>   
>> Brain F at rt --
>>
>> I don't recall whether I installed FC3 or FC4 on a box. How can
>>     
> identify 
>   
>> the installation distribution??
>>
>> TIA.
>>
>>  - Mills
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> uname -r
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At least with fc it does:
[scott at ncc1701f ~]$ uname -r
2.6.19-1.2911.fc6

I don't think it does in Ubuntu