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 .
The standardized way is lsb_release:
jmayer@egg:~> lsb_release -a
LSB Version: core-2.0-noarch:core-3.0-noarch:core-2.0-ia32:core-3.0-ia32:desktop-3.1-ia32:desktop-3.1-noarch:graphics-2.0-ia32:graphics-2.0-noarch:graphics-3.1-ia32:graphics-3.1-noarch
Distributor ID: SUSE LINUX
Description: openSUSE 11.0 (i586) Beta1plus
Release: 11.0
Codename: n/a
Ciao
Joerg
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