06-16-2011
Linux is nothing but a 5-megabyte file that the bootloader loads on startup. It's capable of running applications but doesn't have any. Everything else, everything, is whatever applications distribution X wanted to bundle with it or user Y arranged to have installed. So the kernel amounts to a utility for running other programs.
Solaris a package deal, kernel and applications and everything. So is any Linux distribution, though Linux doesn't really belong to any distribution the way Solaris does to Sun/Oracle.
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LEARN ABOUT LINUX
lsb_release
lsb_release(1) General Commands Manual lsb_release(1)
NAME
lsb_release - print distribution-specific information
SYNOPSIS
lsb_release [options]
DESCRIPTION
The lsb_release command provides certain LSB (Linux Standard Base) and distribution-specific information.
If no options are given, the -v option is assumed.
OPTIONS
The program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`--'). A summary of options are
included below.
-v, --version
Show the version of the LSB against which your current installation is compliant. The version is expressed as a colon separated
list of LSB module descriptions.
-i, --id
Display the distributor's ID.
-d, --description
Display a description of the currently installed distribution.
-r, --release
Display the release number of the currently installed distribution.
-c, --codename
Display the code name of the currently installed distribution.
-a, --all
Display all of the above information.
-s, --short
Use the short output format for any information displayed. This format omits the leading header(s).
-h, --help
Show summary of options.
NOTES
This is a reimplementation of the lsb_release command provided by the Free Standards Group. Any bugs are solely the responsibility of the
author below.
Detection of systems using a mix of packages from various distributions or releases is something of a black art; the current heuristic
tends to assume that the installation is of the earliest distribution which is still being used by .B apt but that heuristic is subject to
error.
SEE ALSO
lsb(8)
AUTHOR
Chris Lawrence <lawrencc@debian.org>.
lsb_release(1)