[ale] Universal way to determine distro?

Jeffrey B. Layton laytonjb at charter.net
Thu Jul 20 09:27:59 EDT 2006


Good morning,

   I guess this shows my lack of knowledge but is there a
universal way to determine what distro a particular machine
is running? I'd like to do this from bash or python, but I
can't think of nor google anything useful. Any ideas?

TIA!

Jeff



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