Re: How to detect the distribution?

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From: john
Date: Sun, 01 Nov 1998 00:00

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Marc Greene writes:
> Other files you might check out are /etc/issue.net, also on my redhat
> system, in the /etc directory, there is a file called redhat-release
> which has the version info. Hope that helps.

On a Debian system /etc/debian_version contains the version number.
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John Hasler
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Dancing Horse Hill
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Date: 1998/11/01
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