<rant mode="highly annoyed">
Why can't there be some standard way of discovering release
information from the various distributions?
For example:
RH has /etc/redhat-release
Mandrake has /etc/mandrake-release
Debian has /etc/debian_version
SuSE has /etc/SuSE-release
And each one of them is completely different, to the point where
writing a script to provide uname(1) like output for the various
pieces of data one would care about from a distribution is almost
a futile effort. (actually, Debian in this case is the real pain,
since they don't even provide a release number!)
</rant>
--
Seeya,
Paul
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God Bless America!
...we don't need to be perfect to be the best around,
and we never stop trying to be better.
Tom Clancy, The Bear and The Dragon
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