Circa 2001-Jun-11 10:23:02 -0400 dixit Trond Eivind Glomsrød: : Candee Sumner <candee.sumner@mscsoftware.com> writes: : > I have noticed that some distributions use an /etc/<DISTRO_NAME>-release : > file that contains similar information. For example, Redhat has an : > /etc/redhat-release file. Is this a standard? : : Not that I know of, but we started this with Red Hat Linux 3.0.3 : (Picasso) AFAIR. Yes, that's when Red Hat started using /etc/redhat-release. 3.0.3 was released in February or March of 1996. -- jim knoble | jmknoble@jmknoble.cx | http://www.jmknoble.cx/ (GnuPG fingerprint: 31C4:8AAC:F24E:A70C:4000::BBF4:289F:EAA8:1381:1491)
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