Determining linux distribution

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 11:29:11AM -0400, David J Patrick wrote:
> OK, so it's LSB compliant, now where's the flag ? (or am I missing your
> point ?)

I don't know if ther eis a way to check if a system is LSB compliant.  I
always assumed that a user would know if their system was advertised as
LSB compliant and based on that should know if they can install software
that requires LSB compliance (does any actually exist?).

Now looking into the LSB support on debian, apparently there is an
lsb_release command to identify the type of LSB system you are on.

On Debian Sarge (3.1/testing) runing lsb_release with some of the
lsb-core and such installed returns this:

Without any of the support packages installed lsb_release shows:
LSB Version:    n/a

Hmm, well lsb_release -a shows:
LSB Version:    n/a
Distributor ID: Debian
Description:    Debian GNU/Linux
Release:        3.1
Codename:       sarge

It seems Debian has lsb support, but don't claim to be fully compliant
with any LSB version, so the field is n/a.

Lennart Sorensen
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