Re: OT: How to determine which distro(Debian,RH, etc)?

[Shao Zhang <shao@linuxfreak.com>]

How about telnet to localhost??

Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
Debian GNU/Linux 2.0 localhost

Brian Servis [servis@purdue.edu] wrote:
> 
> What is the best way to determine which distribution of Linux a machine
> is running?
> 
> I know that Debian has a file /etc/debian_version which is part of the 
> base-files package so that should be present on all Debian machines.
> What do other dists have that is a sure way of knowing what dist is set
> up on the machine?
> 
> Thanks,
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> Brian 
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