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distro-info

DISTRO-INFO(1)						      General Commands Manual						    DISTRO-INFO(1)

NAME

       distro-info - provides information about the distributions' releases

SYNOPSIS

       distro-info [OPTIONS]

DESCRIPTION

       distro-info is a symlink to the distro-info command for your distribution.  On Debian it links to debian-distro-info and on Ubuntu it links
       to ubuntu-distro-info.  All options described in this manual page are available in all distro-info commands. All other options,	which  are
       not described here, are distribution specific.

OPTIONS

       --date=DATE
	      date for calculating the version (default: today)

       -h, --help
	      display help message and exit

       -a, --all
	      list all known versions

       -d, --devel
	      latest development version

       -s, --stable
	      latest stable version

       --supported
	      list of all supported stable versions

       --unsupported
	      list of all unsupported stable versions

       -c, --codename
	      print the codename (default)

       -r, --release
	      print the release version

       -f, --fullname
	      print the full name

SEE ALSO

       debian-distro-info(1), ubuntu-distro-info(1)

AUTHOR

       The script and this manual page was written by Benjamin Drung <bdrung@debian.org>.

distro-info							   January 2011 						    DISTRO-INFO(1)