[Lazarus] Determining OS

[Marco van de Voort]

On Mon, Aug 01, 2011 at 12:16:15PM +0200, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
> On 08/01/2011 11:58 AM, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
> > 
> > Solaris (8 and 10) have neither lsb_release nor xdg-open as standard. 
> > Same probably applies to BSD.
> 
> :-) That doesn't come as a surprise considering that they are "Linux"
> Standards Base.

These parts are not terribly linux specific, and deal with desktop systems
that are commonly used on BSD too. The "Linux" part is more branding between
the big commercial desktops than that it is about operating systems.

Of course, due to Linux' fragmentation, the standards are most needed on
Linux too :-)

> > xdg-open in the past, on the assumption that since it had appeared in 
> > some distreax and versions it would fairly rapidly be adopted by all. 
> > Mea culpa.
> 
> +1
> I can't believe that distros in today's time still make it so hard for
> ISV's to write common (as in distro) desktop applications. Clearly Linux
> based system just don't want to compete with the likes of Mac OSX and
> Windows. Maybe we should all jump ship to Haiku.

Linux unification is IMHO further away then in the 1997-2000 timeframe.