John Summerfield wrote: > Gregg Levine wrote: > >> Hello! >> Well for my Slackware Intel system, I have listed in there, Slackware >> 11.0, the command was: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/# cat /etc/slackware-version >> Slackware 11.0 >> >> John is right. Of all of the distributions I've worked with, Slackware >> does do things differently. > > No. > The others do things differently: I may be wrong, but I think Slackware > predates the other current distros. See http://lwn.net/Distributions/ >
Thought.... wouldn't it be nice if another option were added to the uname command that listed Distributor info? It could at a minimum do the functional equivalent of "cat /etc/distro-info" and each distributor could set a softlink to their own existing files, or patches could be applied to uname to supply the info "inline". Then customers could do something like uname -V or uname -D and have a consistent method of obtaining distributor information. mark ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
