09-03-2012
Help creating a custom linux distro
Hi all, for a while now I've been working on a linux distro and I'm a couple of tweaks away from it to be perfected so if any experts want to help me out please message me.
Thanks in advance.
(I know I've posted a similar thread on the same topic but it was closed due to an unhelpful title
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
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)