On Sat, Nov 03, 2012 at 12:27:48PM -0400, Kurt Keville wrote: > root@J1:~# uname -a > Linux J1 3.0.0-9-generic #14-Ubuntu SMP Tue Aug 23 17:02:50 UTC 2011 > i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux > > since it is Ubuntu and I have a date, I should be able to divine the > distro... but 3.0.0-9-generic is unique to 11.10... and noone ever > dowrevs a kernel, do they?
The other methods are faster and more reliable, and pretty ubiquitous, so there's not a lot of incentive for someone to compile such a database. Distros probably never downgrade, but older distros may well upgrade, and that doesn't take into account if (you are not the admin of the box, and) the admin installs a custom kernel. -- Derek D. Martin http://www.pizzashack.org/ GPG Key ID: 0xDFBEAD02 -=-=-=-=- This message is posted from an invalid address. Replying to it will result in undeliverable mail due to spam prevention. Sorry for the inconvenience.
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