On 1/16/06, Mithun Bhattacharya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 05:14:01PM -0800, Brian Street wrote: > > > hello svlugers, > > > > > > This is a stupid question, or it seems so to me, but I don't know > > how > > > to answer it. > > > > > > If I know a system has linux installed but don't know what flavor, > > how > > > can I tell which it is (ie. Suse, RedHat, Debian, etc.)? > > A distribution is just a collection of packages. It doesn't have any > specific technical information which needs to be standardized across > distributions. What every distribution does have is to consistently > inform the release of that specific distribution which will be > consistent across versions of that distribution.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] set | grep BASH_VERSINFO BASH_VERSINFO=([0]="3" [1]="00" [2]="14" [3]="1" [4]="release" [5]="i386-redhat-linux-gnu") [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- regards, makuchaku --- http://makuchaku.info When you speak out with the courage of your convictions, people listen! -- Valmik Thapar, Wildlife Conservationist. _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
