The Linux Standard Base has just released V1.3 of /bin/lsb_release. This utility prints certain LSB (Linux Standard Base) and Distribution information that cannot otherwise be consistently derived from uname(1) or the system.
-v) Display version of LSB against which distribution is compliant. -i) Display string id of distributor. -d) Display single line text description of distribution. -r) Display release number of distribution. -c) Display codename according to distribution release. -a) Display all of the above information. -s) Display all of the above information in short output format. The source, RPM packages, and DEB packages can be downloaded from: https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=1107 Bug reports can be filed at: https://sourceforge.net/bugs/?group_id=1107 We would like to ask the GNU/Linux distributions to review, comment, and consider including this utility in their distributions. Sincerely, George Kraft IV [EMAIL PROTECTED] 512-838-2688; t/l 678-2688 IBM Linux Technology Center http://oss.software.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/linux/ FSG's Linux Standard Base http://sourceforge.net/projects/lsb/
