On 10 June 2014 16:19, Fred Smith <fredex at 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. > > Hi Fred, I would have thought that "lsb_release -a" would be far more portable across varying different distributions and versions. Regards, Dan -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/attachments/20140610/b33cd572/attachment-0007.html>