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The Fungi

2007-05-30, 7:20 pm

On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 04:46:30PM -0400, Kris Deugau wrote:
[...]
> On RHEL and derived distros, there's usually a file /etc/redhat-release
> (sometimes renamed, but usually trivially enough that it can be found
> with little trouble) containing both the distro code name and the
> version number.

[...]

Not to be patronizing, but you are aware of the /etc/debian_version
file, yes?
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