Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Should we support GTK+ 2.0[.x] and 2.2[.x], or just 2.4 and later?

[Jaap Keuter <jaap.keuter@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

It's from the Linux Standard Base (http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/LSB) 
effort to get various distributions closer together on things like file system 
layout, system services etc.

Thanx,
Jaap

Sake Blok wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 12:55:47PM -0400, Jeff Morriss wrote:
> > Guy Harris wrote:
> > > Red Hat with a 2.4.x kernel; unfortunately, I don't know of any generic 
> > > way to determine what version of what Linux distribution you're running 
> > > on, so I don't know of any way to say "Red Hat Linux 8.1" in the -v output.
> > There's not really a generic way but there aren't _that_ many (major) 
> > Linux distributions.
> >
> > Redhat and (IIRC) CentOS have /etc/redhat-release; for example:
> >
> > > Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 4 (Nahant Update 2)
> > SuSe has /etc/SuSe-release; for example:
> >
> > > SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 (i586)
> > > VERSION = 9
> > A Debian system nearby has its version info in /etc/lsb-release .
>
> Looking at the Ubuntu upgrade info (8.04 came out today), I discovered
> the command "lsb_release -a" which gives the following info on
> my ubuntu and fedora systems:
>
> sake@vmhost03:~$ lsb_release -a
> No LSB modules are available.
> Distributor ID: Ubuntu
> Description:    Ubuntu 7.10
> Release:        7.10
> Codename:       gutsy
> sake@vmhost03:~$ 
>
> [sake@vm-fedora8 trunk]$ lsb_release -a
> LSB Version:    :core-3.1-ia32:core-3.1-noarch:graphics-3.1-ia32:graphics-3.1-noarch
> Distributor ID: Fedora
> Description:    Fedora release 8 (Werewolf)
> Release:        8
> Codename:       Werewolf
> [sake@vm-fedora8 trunk]$ 
>
> I'm not sure though if all distributions support that command.
>
> Cheers,
>     Sake