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02-03-2006, 06:36 AM
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Registered: Aug 2004
Location: Slovenia
Distribution: Fedora Core
Posts: 37
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Contents of /etc/<distribution>_version and /etc/<distribution>-release
I'm gathering some information about Linux distros and I'd like to know:
1) Does the file /etc/slackware-release exist on Slackware Linux ?
2) What are the contents of this file ?
Thanks
Last edited by ghaefb; 02-03-2006 at 07:46 AM.
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02-03-2006, 06:39 AM
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Registered: Aug 2004
Location: Slovenia
Distribution: Fedora Core
Posts: 37
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Contents of /etc/<distribution>_version and /etc/<distribution>-release
I'm gathering some information about Linux distros and I'd like to know:
1) Does the file /etc/debian_version exist on Debian Linux ?
Is there any other file that contains the release information ?
What about Ubuntu ?
2) What are the contents of this file ?
Thanks
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02-03-2006, 06:42 AM
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Registered: Aug 2004
Location: Slovenia
Distribution: Fedora Core
Posts: 37
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Contents of /etc/mandrake-release
I'm gathering some information about Linux distros and I'd like to know:
1) Does the file /etc/mandrake-release exist on Mandriva Linux ?
If not, what is the new name of this file ?
2) What are the contents of this file ?
Thanks
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02-03-2006, 06:43 AM
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Registered: Aug 2004
Location: Slovenia
Distribution: Fedora Core
Posts: 37
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Contents of /etc/SuSE-release
I'm gathering some information about Linux distros and I'd like to know:
1) Does the file /etc/SuSE-release exist on SuSE/Novell Linux ?
2) What are the contents of this file ?
Thanks
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02-03-2006, 06:43 AM
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Registered: Mar 2005
Location: Winnipeg, MB
Distribution: Slackware, OS X
Posts: 443
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There's a slackware- version file in /etc
it contains:
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02-03-2006, 07:15 AM
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Registered: Nov 2002
Location: Kent, England
Distribution: Lubuntu
Posts: 19,158
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Because all 4 threads are identical, I have merged them and moved them to Linux-Distributions. The files will contain the version number.
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02-03-2006, 07:46 AM
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Registered: Aug 2004
Location: Slovenia
Distribution: Fedora Core
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@truthfatal: Thank you for the info.
@XavierP: I apologize, that was a stupid what I did...  thanks for merging threads. |
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