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Postings from October 1999
On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, Andy Dougherty wrote: > I'm currently trying to patch Configure to tell you the Linux > distribution (RedHat, SuSE, Debian, others as folks supply the > information), and I'm unsure of how to best parse RedHat's > /etc/redhat-release file. I have the following 1 example: > > Red Hat Linux release 6.1 (Cartman) > > I'm guessing that the '6.1' is what would be most useful. Does anyone have > a variety of Red Hat systems around or enough familiarity with Red Hat to > say how stable that format is or give me other examples? Mandrake 6.0 gives: $ cat /etc/redhat-release Linux Mandrake release 6.0 (Venus) -- <Matt/> Details: FastNet Software Ltd - XML, Perl, Databases. Tagline: High Performance Web Solutions Web Sites: http://come.to/fastnet http://sergeant.org Available for Consultancy, Contracts and Training.