Am 13.08.2011, 13:12 Uhr, schrieb Vladimir Panteleev
<vladi...@thecybershadow.net>:
Really? I've *never* seen the `uname -a` shell command (which I assume
is just a thin syscall wrapper) print out the distro name.
# uname -r
2.6.39-gentoo-r3
It seems to work, and return the Kernel package version more or less. So
here it is the Gentoo package in the 3rd revision.
Files to look for distributions / versions:
1) /etc/*-release
2) /etc/slackware-version
3) /proc/version
The release file seems to have become a pseudo standard. /proc/version
gives the kernel version which I find more interesting than the
distribution version. Both have their use of course. Some versions of
distributions may come with a configuration that is incompatible to your
program, so a way to figure that out would help. Also there are subtle
differences for example in how the default Java installation is found, how
the filesystem is laid out etc.
