[Cialug] requesting help for troubleshooting

[Todd Walton]

On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 10:12 PM E. Hakan Duran <ehakanduran at gmail.com> wrote:
> This is what I meant by things were getting more complicated over the years.

But that's the thing with standards. If one is good, two is better, right?

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:
http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Admin/release-files.html.

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Todd