On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 17:43, Graeme Geldenhuys <graemeg.li...@gmail.com>wrote:
> 2011/7/31 ik <ido...@gmail.com>: > > Please note that system.d is Fedora implementation (v15) so for Linux you > > need to detect also the Linux distro, and that's a bit more complicated. > > Any distro worth using should support the LSB standards. With that > being said, you can use the 'lsb_release' command to find out exactly > what distribution and version is being used. > I'm using Arch Linux and that is my output: ------------------------ $ lsb_release LSB Version: n/a $ ------------------------- But I have the following file: /etc/arch-release I think that looking for /etc/*release is more reliable at the moment for distros. BTW The TRegistry class is cross platform. On Windows it uses Registry, and on other OS, it uses INI files. > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > $ lsb_release --help > Usage: lsb_release [options] > > Options: > -h, --help show this help message and exit > -v, --version show LSB modules this system supports > -i, --id show distributor ID > -d, --description show description of this distribution > -r, --release show release number of this distribution > -c, --codename show code name of this distribution > -a, --all show all of the above information > -s, --short show all of the above information in short format > > $ lsb_release -a > No LSB modules are available. > Distributor ID: Ubuntu > Description: Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS > Release: 8.04 > Codename: hardy > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > -- > Regards, > - Graeme - > Ido > > > _______________________________________________ > fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit > http://fpgui.sourceforge.net > > -- > _______________________________________________ > Lazarus mailing list > Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org > http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus >
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