uname output ?

[Bill Mullen]

On Mon, 19 Aug 2002 bscott at ntisys.com wrote:

> Red Hat has a file called /etc/redhat-release.  Debian has a file called
> /etc/debian_release (or something close to that; I don't have a Debian
> system to check).  Other distros do similar things.  Of course, this
> leads to an identification algorithm which consists of a giant, messy
> switch/case structure.  Ugly, but often better than nothing.

moon at server:~$ cat /etc/mandrake-release 
Mandrake Linux release 8.1 (Vitamin) for i586
moon at server:~$ 

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Bill Mullen
4:12pm, 2002-08-19