[Lazarus] Determining OS

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Marco van de Voort wrote:
> 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.

It's particularly disappointing in the case of the xdg* utilities, which 
are supposed to be applicable to any unix system with a mainstream 
desktop. Hell, they could even be shimmed onto Windows.

-- 
Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk

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