queryDistro.sh

Kleines Script welches die Distribution des Linux herausfindet.

 

Small script which detects the Linux distribution.

 

Tested on following distributions but will work also on other distributions:

 

# opensuse              openSuSE 11.0 (no lsb_release) and 11.2 (lsb_release)
# fedora                Fedora 12
# centos                CentOS 5.4
# kubuntu               Kubuntu 9.10
# debian                Debian 5.0.3
# arch                  Arch
# slackware             Slackware 13.0.0.0.0
# mandriva              Mandriva 2009.1

# debian                  Knoppix

# linuxmint                Mint 8

 

See comment in source code for more tested distributions