Likewise, SuSE has a file, /etc/SuSE-release I'm not sure, but this might be part of LSB. On 19 Aug 2002 at 11:40, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Red Hat has a file called /etc/redhat-release. Debian has a file called > /etc/debian_release (or something close to that; I don't have a Debian > system to check). Other distros do similar things. Of course, this leads > to an identification algorithm which consists of a giant, messy switch/case > structure. Ugly, but often better than nothing.
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