[LCP]Linux release

[Shalabh_Sharma at Dell.com]

cat /proc/version
cat /etc/issue

-----Original Message-----
From: Joachim Bauernberger [mailto:bj at gmx.net]
Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 11:26 AM
To: linuxcprogramming at lists.linux.org.au
Subject: Re: [LCP]Linux release


On Tuesday 19 March 2002 18:04, you wrote:
| > Does any one know how to detect the Linux flavor, for example 
| > Red Hat, SuSE
| 
| uname

AFAIK uname only prints 
SYSNAME NODENAME RELEASE OSVERSION MACHINE

but not what distribution you have.

Regards,
Joachim

| 
| -- 
| Vincent Penquerc'h 
| 

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