Re: [LCP]Linux release

[Joachim Bauernberger <bj@gmx.net>]

On Tuesday 19 March 2002 18:49, you wrote:
| > but not what distribution you have.
| 
| What *distribution* ???
| I assumed this was what was actually wanted.
| There could be a vast number of distros around, and others popping
| in every month. I can also have *no* distro. So what's the point ?

Exactly.

| eg, my current system is SuSE, but I've changed it so knowing it's
| a SuSE origin is probably not much help (I've changed some of the
| /etc/rc.d files (SuSE puts there the bootup info, and this is non
| standard place)).
| I assume the needed info was the kernel version number.

What was asked for was:
>> Does any one know how to detect the Linux flavor, for example Red 
Hat, SuSE

For that reason I also asked why he would need that kind of info (see 
my first post....)

Joachim  

| 
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| Vincent Penquerc'h 
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