Guy Harris wrote:
Red Hat with a 2.4.x kernel; unfortunately, I don't know of any generic
way to determine what version of what Linux distribution you're running
on, so I don't know of any way to say "Red Hat Linux 8.1" in the -v output.
There's not really a generic way but there aren't _that_ many (major)
Linux distributions.
Redhat and (IIRC) CentOS have /etc/redhat-release; for example:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 4 (Nahant Update 2)
SuSe has /etc/SuSe-release; for example:
SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 (i586)
VERSION = 9
A Debian system nearby has its version info in /etc/lsb-release .
I'm not sure about the others but there's probably a limited set of
files we could check and we'd cover a lot of systems.
