[CentOS-devel] /etc/redhat-release

On 06/19/2014 12:38 PM, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote:
> Features that are introduced by systemd can't be assumed as present except on those (recent) Linux OS versions which are
> using systemd, and can almost be assumed absent outside the Linux world (such as Solaris, BSD, Win/Mac). A few

Well parsing /etc/redhat-release works only on RHEL/Fedora. /etc/os-release is little better, although I admit id did 
not work on Windows :)

> non-systemd Linux distros do ship /etc/os-release, especially those distro preparing to adopt systemd like Debian and
> Ubuntu - but even there only in recent or unreleased versions

Not completely true. It is present in Debian for 2 years - long time before considering systemd. And it is present in 
Debian stable already:
  https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=659853


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