Or `uname -a`. Either way, the solution is to run this as a system command
(through Node), not through a specific Node function.


On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 12:34 AM, Roger WANG <[email protected]>wrote:

> kuno <[email protected]> writes:
>
> > I want to know which linux distribution that my node app is running.
> >
> > I saw there are some functions in os module that can tell something about
> > that. For instance, you probably can guest the distribution based on the
> > return value of os.release();
> >
> > 'x.x.x-xx-generic'  -> ubuntu
> > 'x.x.x-xx.x.x.EL.wh1' -> Redhat
> >
> > But is there more straightforward to tell that?
>
> You can try to read it from the output of `lsb_release -a`
>
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