[Lazarus] Determining OS

Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl.lazarus at telemetry.co.uk
Mon Aug 1 19:03:57 CEST 2011


Michael Schneider wrote:
> Am Monday 01 August 2011 11:58:33 schrieb Mark Morgan Lloyd:
>> Taking that into account, I thought it worth taking a closer
>> look at a number of systems.
>>
>> Slackware x86 8.1 with desktop: neither lsb_release nor xdg-open.
>>
>> Slackware x86 13.37 with desktop: no lsb_release, does have xdg-open.
>>
>> Debian armel Lenny headless: neither lsb_release nor xdg-open.
>>
>> Debian armel Lenny with desktop: neither lsb_release nor xdg-open.
>>
>> Debian armel Squeeze with desktop: has lsb_release, no xdg-open.
>>
>> Debian mipsel Squeeze with desktop: has lsb_release, no xdg-open.
>>
>> Debian zSeries Lenny with desktop: neither lsb_release nor xdg-open.
>>
>> Debian x86 Lenny with desktop: neither lsb_release nor xdg-open.
>>
>> Debian x86 Squeeze with desktop: both lsb_release and xdg-open.
>>
>> Debian SPARC Etch with desktop: both lsb_release and xdg-open.
>>
>> Debian SPARC Lenny with desktop: both lsb_release and xdg-open.
>>
>> Solaris (8 and 10) have neither lsb_release nor xdg-open as standard.
>> Same probably applies to BSD.
> just out of curiosity
> is 
> cat /etc/*-release
> 
> working?

On e.g. x86 Lenny, no. Sorry I can't test in much more detail right now- 
gto problems.

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Mark Morgan Lloyd
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