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Re: Linux vendor name and version.
Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo writes:
> HT>> Does anybody know how to check by command a vendor name and version on a
> HT>> connected computer ?
> HT>>
> HT>> ('uname -a' gives the OS name and kernel version but not the vendor name
> HT>> and version)
>
> If you have /etc/redhat-version, it's probably Red Hat. If you have
> /var/adm/packages and /var/adm/scripts and /var/adm/disk_contents - it's
> probably Slackware. Don't know about other distributuions, but surely
> there are marks of them also.
/etc/debian_version for Debian.
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