Re: [Powertop] [PATCH] report: Try /etc/lsb-release for OS information
Arjan van de Ven <arjan at linux.intel.com> Thu, 20 Sep 2012 17:01:51 +0200
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On 9/20/2012 4:58 PM, Namhyung Kim wrote:
> Ubuntu doesn't provide /etc/{system,redhat,os}-release but
> /etc/lsb-release file. Since it's present on any LSB (Linux Standard
> Base) compliant distributions, it'd better to try to read it.
it's obsolete though
everyone has moved (or is moving) to /etc/os-release, which is a freedeskto=
p standard
and has pretty decent semantics...
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