ANNOUNCEMENT: /bin/lsb_release V1.3
The Linux Standard Base has just released V1.3 of /bin/lsb_release. This
utility prints certain LSB (Linux Standard Base) and Distribution
information that cannot otherwise be consistently derived from uname(1) or
the system.
-v) Display version of LSB against which distribution is compliant.
-i) Display string id of distributor.
-d) Display single line text description of distribution.
-r) Display release number of distribution.
-c) Display codename according to distribution release.
-a) Display all of the above information.
-s) Display all of the above information in short output format.
The source, RPM packages, and DEB packages can be downloaded from:
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=1107
Bug reports can be filed at:
https://sourceforge.net/bugs/?group_id=1107
We would like to ask the GNU/Linux distributions to review, comment, and
consider including this utility in their distributions.
Sincerely,
George Kraft IV
gk4@us.ibm.com
512-838-2688; t/l 678-2688
IBM Linux Technology Center
http://oss.software.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/linux/
FSG's Linux Standard Base
http://sourceforge.net/projects/lsb/
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