[ale] Foolish Distro ID Question

[Jeff Lightner]

My favorite hostname of all time:

 

We were naming servers after Star Trek ships (defiant, intrepid etc...).
On leading an install team to our remote data center I couldn't think of
a good name that hadn't already been used so finally came up with
"borgcube".   I literally had to stand over the other admin and yell
"TYPE IT!,  TYPE IT!" to make him input that name during the install.

 

The later reaction of all and sundry on being told we were doing
maintenance on "borgcube" was most gratifying.   That is until
management decided they weren't going to let Admins decides the names
any more...

 

Our other server series were named for Marvel comic heroes - I thought
of Silver Surfer but it was too long so we named it "agsurfer".   

Interesting that the new Fantastic Four is reverting Silver Surfer to
his original role in Marvel as a nemesis for the FF.

 

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From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
To: ale at ale.org
Michael B. Trausch
Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 1:10 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] Foolish Distro ID Question

 

On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 12:58 -0500, Scott Castaline wrote:



Jeff Lightner wrote:
> uname -r gives the kernel release which may or may not have a hint
about
> the distro and distro version. It therefore can't be relied upon for
> the purpose.
At least with fc it does:
[scott at ncc1701f ~]$ uname -r
2.6.19-1.2911.fc6

I don't think it does in Ubuntu


Ubuntu gives the kernel type:

mbt at pepper:~$ uname -r
2.6.20-9-generic

And has "4.0" in /etc/debian_version.  I am not sure what other things
might exist other than /etc/issue, which reports "Ubuntu {codename}
(release)".

By the way, nice hostname, Scott.  :^)

    -- Mike


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