Hi Wichert! > > Is there a standard for identifying a particular Linux distribution? > > Yes, lsb-release. It's documented in the LSB spec. If I remember right, there was a discussion to add a option to uname... is this obsolete? Liebe Gruesse, with best regards Stephan Lauffer [ Pedagogical University Freiburg - Germany ] [ http://www.ph-freiburg.de/zik/ ]