Comment on Introducing /etc/os-release - End to distribution specific release filesparentComments−dignan14yI think it's really only missing Debian and Ubuntu to cover the "big distributions", so while "majority" might be a strong word, it does seem to have about half of them.There also seems to be a bug report for it on Debian: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=659891One thing I feel people might be missing is that /etc/os-release could be applicable to Mac OS and the BSDs, making it widely applicable.
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I think it's really only missing Debian and Ubuntu to cover the "big distributions", so while "majority" might be a strong word, it does seem to have about half of them.
There also seems to be a bug report for it on Debian: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=659891
One thing I feel people might be missing is that /etc/os-release could be applicable to Mac OS and the BSDs, making it widely applicable.