dear bhaskar, thanks a tonne for your email on all the methods you discovered so far to display the distribution and release version of a linux flavour thru a shell prompt.
i tried each one of your options out, and discovered any one of them would work in snaring this data, though obviously i haven't do this for all 3xx distributions. as linux distros proliferate, and as new kind of devices, especially embedded linux devices spawn, i feel this question will become even more relevant. one small example: debian -> knoppix -> gnoppix -> * with a couple of forks made by LiFY and a few by other education-based Live CD distros, which in turn could be forked by others . . . LL _______________________________________________ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
