Creating /etc/os-release

Rebecca Cran rebecca at bsdio.com
Fri Nov 8 17:11:50 UTC 2019


On 11/7/19 11:10 AM, Warner Losh wrote:

> A standard has evolved in other communities to communicate certain key
> aspects of the system to interested parties.  The /etc/os-release file. The
> standard is defined here http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/os-release and
> here https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/os-release.html . It
> has become a de-facto standard for the graphical systems.
Also, it's enough of a standard that it's supported in Solaris 11.4 - 
https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E88353_01/html/E37852/os-release-5.html .


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Rebecca Cran


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