At the bottom of that link is a further link to here, which explains it is 
hoped that this format is widely adopted even on non-systemd distros: 
<http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/os-release> The date on that post is 2012, so 
the concept has been in existence for quite some time now. /etc/os-release is 
certainly present on Artix and Devuan, which are both non-systemd.

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