[Lazarus] RE : Determining OS

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Ludo Brands 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.?
>>
> 
> apt/sources.list for my ubuntu 10.04 64 bit refers to fe.
> 
> deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-security main restricted 
> 
> Kubuntu (ubuntu with KDE desktop) 10.04 32 bit and Xubuntu 10.04 (with
> XFCE4) point to the same repositories.  
>>From older versions, I remember similar names containing ubuntu and the
> codename (hardy, dapper, etc).

So with luck Ubuntu will either have lsb_release on newer systems, or a 
codename embedded in apt/sources.list on older ones.

All bets are off if access is through a proxy with non-standard names.

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

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