On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 11:46:16AM +0200, Kostas Koumantaros wrote:
> I would propose to use SL for all RHEL derivatives
> and keep RedHat for any remaining 7.3 RedHats out there
That doesn't make much sense RHEL 2.1, RHEL 3 or RHEL 4 aren't the
same at all, you can't just use the same name for all of them.
Why don't we use the output of /usr/bin/lsb_release (-i -r maybe?)
which is part of the Linux Standard Base Specification?
Kostas
Some example outputs....
LSB Version: 1.3
Distributor ID: RedHatEnterpriseWS
Description: Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS release 4 (Nahant)
Release: 4
Codename: Nahant
LSB Version: 1.3
Distributor ID: FedoraCore
Description: Fedora Core release 3 (Heidelberg)
Release: 3
Codename: Heidelberg
LSB Version: 1.3
Distributor ID: RedHatEnterpriseWS
Description: Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS release 3 (Taroon Update 4)
Release: 3
Codename: TaroonUpdate4
LSB Version: n/a
Distributor ID: Debian
Description: Debian GNU/Linux
Release: 3.1
Codename: sarge
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