Hi,
It's from the Linux Standard Base (http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/LSB)
effort to get various distributions closer together on things like file system
layout, system services etc.
Thanx,
Jaap
Sake Blok wrote:
On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 12:55:47PM -0400, Jeff Morriss wrote:
Guy Harris wrote:
Red Hat with a 2.4.x kernel; unfortunately, I don't know of any generic
way to determine what version of what Linux distribution you're running
on, so I don't know of any way to say "Red Hat Linux 8.1" in the -v output.
There's not really a generic way but there aren't _that_ many (major)
Linux distributions.
Redhat and (IIRC) CentOS have /etc/redhat-release; for example:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 4 (Nahant Update 2)
SuSe has /etc/SuSe-release; for example:
SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 (i586)
VERSION = 9
A Debian system nearby has its version info in /etc/lsb-release .
Looking at the Ubuntu upgrade info (8.04 came out today), I discovered
the command "lsb_release -a" which gives the following info on
my ubuntu and fedora systems:
sake@vmhost03:~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 7.10
Release: 7.10
Codename: gutsy
sake@vmhost03:~$
[sake@vm-fedora8 trunk]$ lsb_release -a
LSB Version: :core-3.1-ia32:core-3.1-noarch:graphics-3.1-ia32:graphics-3.1-noarch
Distributor ID: Fedora
Description: Fedora release 8 (Werewolf)
Release: 8
Codename: Werewolf
[sake@vm-fedora8 trunk]$
I'm not sure though if all distributions support that command.
Cheers,
Sake