Hoary or Breezy?

[Toby Newman]

Is there a way (like, say, '$uname -a' which will tell me if I have
hoary hedgehog or breezy badger?

I can never remember which it is I got. Pretty sure it's breezy!

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[Krzysztof Mitko]

Tako rzecze Toby Newman <google@asktoby.com>:

> Is there a way (like, say, '$uname -a' which will tell me if I have
> hoary hedgehog or breezy badger?
>
> I can never remember which it is I got. Pretty sure it's breezy!

It's written in /etc/issue

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[Mark South]

On Wed, 01 Mar 2006 19:33:53 +0000, Toby Newman wrote:

> Is there a way (like, say, '$uname -a' which will tell me if I have
> hoary hedgehog or breezy badger?

Well, what colour is your background?

> I can never remember which it is I got. Pretty sure it's breezy!

Here it's snowy.
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* Toby Newman wrote in alt.os.linux.ubuntu:

> Is there a way (like, say, '$uname -a' which will tell me if I have
> hoary hedgehog or breezy badger?
>
> I can never remember which it is I got. Pretty sure it's breezy!
>

CTL + ALT + F1 - F6 will drop you to a terminal, should be right there.

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[Florian Diesch]

Toby Newman <google@asktoby.com> wrote:

> Is there a way (like, say, '$uname -a' which will tell me if I have
> hoary hedgehog or breezy badger?

lsb_release -a

Needs package lsb-release to be installed (I don't know if it is by
default)


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[Toby Newman]

On 2006-03-01, Florian Diesch <diesch@spamfence.net> wrote:

> Toby Newman <google@asktoby.com> wrote:

>> Is there a way (like, say, '$uname -a' which will tell me if I have
>> hoary hedgehog or breezy badger?

>
> lsb_release -a
>
> Needs package lsb-release to be installed (I don't know if it is by
> default)

Thanks - it is installed on my machine:

$ man lsb_release
[...] FSG lsb_release v1.4 prints certain LSB (Linux Standard Base) and
Distribution information[...]

$ lsb_release
LSB Version: n/a
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu (The Breezy Badger Release)
Release: 5.10
Codename: breezy


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