On 10 June 2014 16:19, Fred Smith <fredex@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us> wrote:

Hi all!

I think it was on this list, in the last week or so I saw some comment
about how some apps may grope the contents of /etc/redhat-release when
installing themselves, so as to figure how which OS they're running on,
and there was some mention of this not being the best of all possible
ideas.

I would have thought that "lsb_release -a" would be far more portable across varying different distributions and versions.

Regards,

Dan