The bottom line here is that UEFI will prevent some Linux users from
installing Linux, especially in the near future. I suspect that all
major distros will be able to install on a UEFI system with very little
user interaction. However, we also need to gain some knowledge so that
when we do
If I wanted to write a script to obtain distro flavor (Ubuntu, CentOS,
RH, Mint, BSD, Solaris, etc), major/minor version (5.3, 10.6, etc),
hardware brand/make/model, at least for starters, what would be the
best way to attack it?
This script may or may not assume being run as root.
Environment
On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 1:09 PM, Scott Ehrlich srehrl...@gmail.com wrote:
If I wanted to write a script to obtain distro flavor (Ubuntu, CentOS,
RH, Mint, BSD, Solaris, etc), major/minor version (5.3, 10.6, etc),
hardware brand/make/model, at least for starters, what would be the
best way to
I'd take a look at the perl script memconf and see how it works. Even
though it was written for Solaris, it does a decent job on Linux. It
does like to be run as root, however.
http://www.4schmidts.com/unix.html
There is a package lshw on Fedora (among others) you could look at the
On Fri, 02 Nov 2012 10:17:21 -0400
Jerry Feldman g...@blu.org wrote:
The bottom line here is that UEFI will prevent some Linux users from
installing Linux, especially in the near future. I suspect that all
No, it will not. Anyone who tells you otherwise is either lying or has
bought into the
Noah Friedman friedman aaat splode dawt com maintains a shell
script that is basically GNU autoconf's hosttype detection logic,
standalone. It doesn't need root, but in some obscure situations may
require a C compiler.
It is certainly thermonuclear overkill for your situation, but will
