[wplug] Determining distro version (was: weird rsync error)

[Tom Rhodes]

On Tue, 25 Mar 2008 00:41:59 -0400
Zach <netrek at gmail.com> wrote:

> ubuntu at ubuntu:~$ lsb_release -d
> Description:    Ubuntu 6.06 LTS
> 
> ubuntu at ubuntu:~$ cat /etc/issue
> Ubuntu 6.06 LTS \n \l
> 
> ubuntu at ubuntu:~$ cat /etc/debian_version
> testing/unstable
> 
> ubuntu at ubuntu:~$ uname -a
> Linux ubuntu 2.6.15-23-386 #1 PREEMPT Tue May 23 13:49:40 UTC 2006
> i686 GNU/Linux

Yea, kinda dumb.  I like this much better:

%uname -a
FreeBSD localhost.xxx.org 8.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT #0: Mon Mar 17 21:07:06 EDT 2008     root at localhost.xxx.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MOBILE  i386

$ uname -a 
SunOS xxx 5.10 Generic_118855-33 i86pc i386 i86pc

There I know exactly what I'm working on.  Seems a few Linux
versions just like to say "Linux" instead of your example above
"Linux ubuntu" which gives me:

sh-3.1$ uname -a
Linux xx.xxx.net 2.6.18.1libata-patched #1 SMP Mon Mar 19 11:56:51 EDT 2007 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Think I'll suggest a new policy where, from this point on, we don't use
any Linux distro other than Ubuntu.  :P

-- 
Tom Rhodes