On 9/20/2012 4:58 PM, Namhyung Kim wrote:
> Ubuntu doesn't provide /etc/{system,redhat,os}-release but
> /etc/lsb-release file.  Since it's present on any LSB (Linux Standard
> Base) compliant distributions, it'd better to try to read it.

it's obsolete though
everyone has moved (or is moving) to /etc/os-release, which is a freedesktop standard
and has pretty decent semantics...