Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > Unfortunately I couldn't find a really good way to differentiate > between Debian from Ubuntu without using 'lsb_release -i'. /etc/issue contains that information. It says something like: Ubuntu 9.04 \n \l (blank line) By the way, that also works on Fedora, my /etc/issue says: Fedora release 12 (Constantine) Kernel \r on an \m (\l) (blank line) The first line is the same as the contents of /etc/redhat-release. Kevin Kofler -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel