[NTLUG:Discuss] Any way to detect a distro?

[Bryan J. Smith]

On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 04:56 -0500, Leroy Tennison wrote:
> I know about uname but I'm wondering if there is any simple program like 
> it that tells you it's "SuSE 9.2" or "Fedora Core 4", etc.

It's up to vendors to come up with their own standards for distribution
tagging (disttag).

But Linux Standards Base (LSB) distributions typically have a:  
  /etc/lsb-release

Which states what LSB release they are compliant (or attempt to comply)
to.

This has been adopted because most vendors have a /etc/*release* file as
well.  E.g., /etc/fedora-release.


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