On Monday 04 August 2008 18:33:24 John Tapsell wrote:

> > Anyways, if someone is up to making one, please use lsb_release (for

> > example lsb_release -i will return the distro) instead of trying to use

> > /etc/debian* or /etc/redhat* or anything else distribution specific.

> > Nowadays distributions are LSB compliant and if they aren't, I don't

> > think those should be separately supported.

>

> Ah good point.

>

> Does debian ship with lsb_release these days btw?

Just tried it:

dimsuz@debian:~/$ lsb_release -i

Distributor ID: Debian

Dmitry.