[plt-scheme] OS version?

On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 03:17:42PM -0500, Eli Barzilay wrote:
> Does anyone know a portable way of getting the distribution and
> version of a linux machine?  Specifically, I don't know of any way to
> get the version of Debian/Ubuntu machines.

"uname -a" can be used to get the kernel version, beyond that I don't think there's a standard way.

Evan


> 
> (The best hack I found so far is pretty bad: "cat /etc/issue.net"...)
> 
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