2011/7/31 Chris Kelling : > > $ lsb_release seems to give good information, my Fedora 15 machine returns > > LSB Version: :core-4.0-ia32:core-4,0-noarch
Specify some of the other parameters in the 'lsb_release' command and you will get the exact information your are looking for, on any distro that supports LSB standard. > Say what you will about the windows registry, but at least there’s a common > place to look for and put information. Well yes, it's very easy if you own the OS and there is just one or two controlled version of that OS. This applies both to Microsoft and Apple. The benefit of closed source OS's. If you want to apply the same principle, then you need to compare various Ubuntu releases to each other. The LSB (Linux Standards Base) and the FreeDesktop.org standards are trying to make all distros more compliant with a set of standards - making the life of any ISV and lone software developer MUCH easier. LSB and FreeDesktop.org are supported by most mainstream distros (for years already). If your distro doesn't, use something better, or email the maintainers of that distro and demand better standardization. -- Regards, - Graeme - _______________________________________________ fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit http://fpgui.sourceforge.net -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
