[Linux-disciples] Identifying the distro

[Adam Rosi-Kessel]

Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> Is there any portable way to identify which Linux distro
> you're running? I'm writing a script that needs to know
> whether it's looking at a Debian, Gentoo, FreeBSD, or
> whatnot system. 'uname -s' returns 'Linux', say, but not
> which distro.

Not that I know. You can probably find an idiosyncrasy for each
distribution--e.g., Debian has /etc/debian_version (or /usr/bin/dpkg), etc..

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