On Sun, 11 Jul 2004, Ed Wilts wrote: > The short answer is that it's going to be VERY hard to determine which > distribution you're running, if it's possible at all. Nothing would > stop me from putting a stock kernel on either of my systems and > /proc/version is going to be even more wrong. If you restrict yourself to /proc, sure. However, a lot of distributions have /etc/<distro>-version that can be used to detect what distro you're running on. -- "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
