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Subject: [ale] Universal way to determine distro?
From: laytonjb at charter.net (Jeffrey B. Layton)
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 09:27:59 -0400

Good morning,

   I guess this shows my lack of knowledge but is there a
universal way to determine what distro a particular machine
is running? I'd like to do this from bash or python, but I
can't think of nor google anything useful. Any ideas?

TIA!

Jeff

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