> 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. Mithun __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
