[ale] Universal way to determine distro?

[lists at stromberg.org (Thomas Stromberg)]

On 21 jul 2006, at 09.15, Jeff Lightner wrote:

> I agree it's fairly neat.  I hadn't heard of the lsb_release command
> before.
>
> The script worked on my old RH 7.3 system as well as my Fedora Core 4
> and Fedora Core 5.
>
> By the way - the reason it used the else on FC 5 is because FC 5 has
> /etc/lsb-release.d directory rather than just the /etc/lsb-release  
> file.
> He referenced this directory later in what he wrote but didn't test  
> for
> it at beginning.

Cool. Thanks for fixing up the detection. I've updated my ~/.zprofile  
here with it. As you can tell, I haven't logged into a Fedora box for  
a while.

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