[Cialug] requesting help for troubleshooting

[E. Hakan Duran]

On Wednesday, October 31, 2018 2:32:10 PM CDT Todd Walton wrote:
> ...
> But that's the thing with standards. If one is good, two is better, right?

Indeed.

> 
> I learned the other day that some distributions have a file called
> /etc/lsb-release that has information about the distribution you're
> running. But that file is *not* a part of the LSB standard. The LSB
> standard only specifies that there be a script called lsb_release.
> That script reads lsb-release if it's present, but falls back to other
> methods if not. The systemd folks did not like that and, apparently
> finding a moment of boredom with the engineering challenges involved
> in designing a kitchen sink, decided that all systemd-compliant
> systems would henceforth have a file called /etc/os-release, which
> essentially duplicates the information found in the 30 or 40 other
> files you might encounter in the wild:
> ...

I confirm that my distribution has both /etc/lsb-release file and /etc/os-release, which is a link pointing to /usr/lib/os-release. Both of these files contain very similar distro-specific basic information as stated above.

:/

Hakan

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