[Lazarus] Determining OS

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:

>> Can somebody confirm this for Ubuntu? Are there comparable files for 
>> other distreax?
> 
> Both my Ubuntu 8.04.4 and Ubuntu 10.04.3 systems have the lsb_release
> and the xdg-open commands available. So I guess that's +1 to Canonical
> for at least trying to be helpful!

Yes, but for cases where lsb_release might not work- e.g. an older 
release- does apt/sources.list refer to a section of their repository by 
name or simply as "stable" etc.?

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