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Tim McDaniel wrote on 2010-04-05:

> On Mon, 5 Apr 2010, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 05:42:05PM +1000, Rurik Christiansen wrote:
>>> * How do I know what the current release is ? (e.g. is there
>>> something like /etc/redhat-release or whatever ? The docs mention
>>> /var/log/setup ... but is not clear at all)
>>
>> ... Otherwise, as Dave Korn suggests, you can *read the website*.
>
> I suppose that "/etc/redhat-release" is not as well-known a concept as
> he or I had thought.  As I understand it, it's a file that's
> maintained by the Redhat installation software to show, in an easy
> human-readable way, what is currently installed on the running system.
> It is only updated by new installs run on the machine.  I think that
> some other distributions put something in /etc/motd.

There's the LSB, Linux Standards Base, and it supports a "lsb_release"  
command, try "lsb_release -a" for a start, here a few samplers:

LSB Version:     
core-2.0-ia32:core-3.0-ia32:core-3.1-ia32:core-3.2-ia32:core-4.0-ia32:core-2.0-noarch:core-3.0-noarch:core-3.1-noarch:core-3.2-noarch:core-4.0-noarch:cxx-3.0-ia32:cxx-3.1-ia32:cxx-3.2-ia32:cxx-4.0-ia32:cxx-3.0-noarch:cxx-3.1-noarch:cxx-3.2-noarch:cxx-4.0-noarch:printing-3.2-ia32:printing-4.0-ia32:printing-3.2-noarch:printing-4.0-noarch
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS
Release:        8.04
Codename:       hardy

LSB Version:     
core-2.0-ia32:core-2.0-noarch:core-3.0-ia32:core-3.0-noarch:core-3.1-ia32:core-3.1-noarch:core-3.2-ia32:core-3.2-noarch:core-4.0-ia32:core-4.0-noarch:cxx-3.0-ia32:cxx-3.0-noarch:cxx-3.1-ia32:cxx-3.1-noarch:cxx-3.2-ia32:cxx-3.2-noarch:cxx-4.0-ia32:cxx-4.0-noarch:desktop-3.1-ia32:desktop-3.1-noarch:desktop-3.2-ia32:desktop-3.2-noarch:desktop-4.0-ia32:desktop-4.0-noarch:graphics-2.0-ia32:graphics-2.0-noarch:graphics-3.0-ia32:graphics-3.0-noarch:graphics-3.1-ia32:graphics-3.1-noarch:graphics-3.2-ia32:graphics-3.2-noarch:graphics-4.0-ia32:graphics-4.0-noarch:qt4-3.1-ia32:qt4-3.1-noarch
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 9.10
Release:        9.10
Codename:       karmic

LSB Version:     
core-2.0-noarch:core-3.2-noarch:core-4.0-noarch:core-2.0-ia32:core-3.2-ia32:core-4.0-ia32:desktop-4.0-ia32:desktop-4.0-noarch:graphics-2.0-ia32:graphics-2.0-noarch:graphics-3.2-ia32:graphics-3.2-noarch:graphics-4.0-ia32:graphics-4.0-noarch
Distributor ID: SUSE LINUX
Description:    openSUSE 11.2 (i586)
Release:        11.2
Codename:       n/a


-- 
Matthias Andree

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