On 05/22/2010 12:27 PM, Till Maas wrote: > On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 05:40:45PM +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: >> 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. > > This is not something one can rely on, because it is perfectly valid to > change these files. In fact, our policy at work requires changing this file to a legal notification about official use, no privacy, no hacking etc etc. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
