Comments on: Identifying the Distribution of a Linux System

By: Sai Krishna

Sai Krishna — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 07:10:46 +0000

Finally I figured out from the kernel version is redhat kernel 2.4.21-37.ELsmp is a kernel for RHEL 3…
……. there are ways to get there :)

By: Sai Krishna

Sai Krishna — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 06:35:07 +0000

when we press tab with ‘re’ and when you get commands of redhat like

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redhat-cdinstall-helper redhat-config-nfs redhat-config-services
redhat-config-authentication redhat-config-packages redhat-config-soundcard
redhat-config-bind redhat-config-printer redhat-config-time
redhat-config-date redhat-config-printer-gui redhat-config-users
redhat-config-keyboard redhat-config-printer-tui redhat-control-network
redhat-config-language redhat-config-proc redhat-install-packages
redhat-config-mouse redhat-config-rootpassword redhat-logviewer
redhat-config-network redhat-config-samba redhat-switch-mail
redhat-config-network-cmd redhat-config-securitylevel redhat-switch-mail-nox
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then I hope I can be sure it is some version of redhat release.
Also
when I ran lsb_release all I got is this
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LSB Version: n/a
Distributor ID: n/a
Description: (none)
Release: n/a
Codename: n/a
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By: StuartYeates

StuartYeates — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 15:39:44 +0000

Dave Hall:

Don’t use “#!/bin/bash” if you want portability use “#!/bin/sh”

By: Gunnar

Gunnar — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 17:13:22 +0000

But then again, if [ -x /usr/bin/dpkg ]; then dpkg -i something.deb; elif [ -x /usr/bin/rpm ]; then rpm -i something.rpm; else tar xvzf something.tar.gz; fi would break horribly…

By: vicm3

vicm3 — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 16:05:31 +0000

more /etc/issue

Has worked for me for ages…

By: Everything is a Freaking DNS problem

Everything is a Freaking DNS problem — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 12:16:37 +0000

Identifying the Distribution of a Linux System…

So Russel is wondering how to figure out what platform you are on by adding a script or so that will tell you you are on a RPM based machine when trying to run dpkg or tell you you need to use rpm.

Imvho that system is broken .. as everybody with som…

By: thp

thp — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 06:54:50 +0000

doesn’t Ubuntu have something similiar for commands that are available in not installed packages? (i.e. you type “vim” and bash says something like: ,,”vim” not found. Maybe you want to install the “vim-tiny” package that contains this program?´´)

By: etbe

etbe — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 04:31:06 +0000

OK, you have convinced me to use lsb_release. Thanks for the comments!

By: Dave Hall

Dave Hall — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 22:05:26 +0000

On desktop machines can we have menu item for MS Office apps which simply use the following scripts:

#!/bin/bash
# word.exe
zenity –error –text “This is computer is running Linux, please use OpenOffice.org Writer”

#!/bin/bash
# excel.exe
zenity –error –text “This is computer is running Linux, please use OpenOffice.org Calc”

#!/bin/bash
# outlook.exe
zenity –error –text “This is computer is running Linux, please use Evolution”

etc etc

Sorry I couldn’t resist :)

By: Scott Robinson

Scott Robinson — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 21:19:39 +0000

scott@resa:~$ [0] lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu gutsy (development branch)
Release: 7.10
Codename: gutsy

[scott@sa8169024 ~]$ lsb_release -a
LSB Version: 1.3
Distributor ID: FedoraCore
Description: Fedora Core release 3 (Heidelberg)
Release: 3
Codename: Heidelberg

scott@steak:~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Debian
Description: Debian GNU/Linux 4.0r1 (etch)
Release: 4.0r1
Codename: etch