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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