Re: How, in a script, to differentiate between Ubuntu and XUbuntu, LUbuntu, etc

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On 08/02/2019 19.53, Martin Gregorie wrote:
> On Sat, 29 Dec 2018 03:54:36 +0100, Carlos E.R. wrote:
> 
>> This is the cross-distribution current method, parsing /etc/os-release.
>> If all those *buntu flavours yield the same result, it is because they
>> are intended to be the same distribution. What desktop they use by
>> default is irrelevant.
> 
> Does parsing /proc/version do any better? 
> 
> It looks potentially useful for Fedora, where it shows the Fedora version 
> and build as well as the kernel version, so probably distinguishes it 
> from RHEL, but totally useless for RaspberryPi, where it only shows the 
> kernel version.
> 
> FWIW both also identify the gcc version .

On openSUSE it only displays kernel version, in detail:


Linux version 4.12.14-lp150.12.45-default (geeko@buildhost) (gcc version
7.3.1 20180323 [gcc-7-branch revision 258812] (SUSE Linux) ) #1 SMP Mon
Jan 14 20:29:59 UTC 2019 (7a62739)


That it says "SUSE Linux" only means that the kernel says so. It may be
about the machine where the kernel was compiled.


-- 
Cheers, Carlos.

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How, in a script, to differentiate between Ubuntu and XUbuntu, LUbuntu, etc Java Jive <java@evij.com.invalid> - 2018-10-01 19:06 +0100
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      Re: How, in a script, to differentiate between Ubuntu and XUbuntu, LUbuntu, etc Martin Gregorie <martin@mydomain.invalid> - 2018-10-02 10:44 +0000
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      Re: How, in a script, to differentiate between Ubuntu and XUbuntu, LUbuntu, etc Eef Hartman <E.J.M.Hartman@gmail.com> - 2018-12-29 01:13 +0000
    Re: How, in a script, to differentiate between Ubuntu and XUbuntu, LUbuntu, etc "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2018-12-29 03:54 +0100
      Re: How, in a script, to differentiate between Ubuntu and XUbuntu, LUbuntu, etc Martin Gregorie <martin@mydomain.invalid> - 2019-02-08 18:53 +0000
        Re: How, in a script, to differentiate between Ubuntu and XUbuntu, LUbuntu, etc Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2019-02-08 11:20 -0800
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