[ale] Foolish Distro ID Question

[Scott Castaline]

Michael B. Trausch wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 12:58 -0500, Scott Castaline wrote:
>> Jeff Lightner wrote:
>> > uname -r gives the kernel release which may or may not have a hint 
>> about
>> > the distro and distro version. It therefore can't be relied upon for
>> > the purpose.
>> At least with fc it does:
>> [scott at ncc1701f ~]$ uname -r
>> 2.6.19-1.2911.fc6
>>
>> I don't think it does in Ubuntu
>
> Ubuntu gives the kernel type:
>
> mbt at pepper:~$ uname -r
> 2.6.20-9-generic
>
> And has "4.0" in /etc/debian_version.  I am not sure what other things 
> might exist other than /etc/issue, which reports "Ubuntu {codename} 
> (release)".
>
> By the way, nice hostname, Scott.  :^)
>
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