[ale] Foolish Distro ID Question

[Michael B. Trausch]

On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 12:58 -0500, Scott Castaline wrote:

> 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.
> 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


Ubuntu gives the kernel type:

mbt at pepper:~$ uname -r
2.6.20-9-generic

And has "4.0" in /etc/debian_version.  I am not sure what other things
might exist other than /etc/issue, which reports "Ubuntu {codename}
(release)".

By the way, nice hostname, Scott.  :^)

    -- Mike

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