On Fri, 27 Mar 2003, James Sparenberg wrote:

> On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 09:17, alan wrote:
> > On 27 Mar 2003, James Sparenberg wrote:
> > 
> > > Just curious here.  Why is it since MDK is no longer a "cleaned up" Red
> > > Hat with KDE but a real distribution in it's own right.  Why is it that
> > > there is still a file called redhat-release in /etc?  
> > 
> > Because some install programs look for that file to determine what version 
> > to actually install.
> > 
> K makes sense .... lazy sense (for the programmer who created it) but
> sense nonetheless.  Wonder if SuSE has this file as well.
> 
> James

why would SuSE linux have this legacy stuff from RedHat in it? 

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Mark

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