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[Solved] Differentiate between various Linux distros

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Gustavo 'Gus' Carreno:
Hey Y'all,

This actually made me curious of how many ways we can assess this and I've added another app to my Test* collection of apps: Test Linux Distribution Information

Of course I went all overboard and it even has i18n with one language: Portuguese.

Hope it's useful for anyone.

TODO:

* Get the information via the lsb_release CLI command
* Find if these 4/5 methods are really the whole shibang or if there are others.
Cheers,
Gus

Thaddy:

--- Quote from: winni on May 29, 2022, 09:39:13 pm ---
This is not correct.

There is a hardcore crew that is angry about systemd.

--- End quote ---
Fake news? For sure. There is a very valid reason everybody is using systemd: it works better than the old alternatives.

friend:

--- Quote from: Thaddy on May 30, 2022, 08:25:18 am ---Fake news? For sure. There is a very valid reason everybody is using systemd: it works better than the old alternatives.

--- End quote ---

You don't know what you're talking about. This cannot even be called "news" -- now the association is unsurprising for someone whose profile picture is a flag of Ukraine and recently called the President of the Russian Federation a criminal in his signature. You seem to like talking about what you don't know.
I bet you haven't even read about the reasons why systemd is criticized.

winni:

--- Quote from: Thaddy on May 30, 2022, 08:25:18 am ---
--- Quote from: winni on May 29, 2022, 09:39:13 pm ---
This is not correct.

There is a hardcore crew that is angry about systemd.

--- End quote ---
Fake news? For sure. There is a very valid reason everybody is using systemd: it works better than the old alternatives.

--- End quote ---


Don't call everything you're not informed about "fake news".

Some former Debian Developers issued an non-systemd Debian called Devuan:

https://www.devuan.org/

A (not complete) list of Linux distros without systemd:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Linux_distributions_without_systemd

Winni

marcov:
Some people are also still maintaining Minix. That doesn't mean Linux is irrelevant, but also not that all Linux code should still work with Minix.

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