[Gllug] Ubuntu and me - suggestions requested (polite ones please)

[Iain M Conochie]

Tethys wrote:
> --------
>
> "Alan Pope" writes:
>
>   
>> We use version numbers too. 6.06 was before 7.04 which was before
>> 8.10. Admittedly some people seem keen on using the code names rather
>> than the numbers, but we do at least have them.
>>     
>
> Yes, but critically, your repositories use codenames, rather than
> numbers. So while I happen to know that I'm running dapper on one
> of my servers (by looking at sources.list -- Ubuntu seems to lack
> an equivalent of /etc/redhat-release),


14:57:23 monkey:$ cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=8.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=hardy
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 8.04.1"

Cheers

Iain
>  I don't actually know which
> version number it is. I had to resort to Wikipedia to find out.
> I couldn't find it on the Ubuntu site anywhere[1].
>
> Tet
>
> [1] Although having just checked, I actually can now find this on
>     the Ubuntu site. At the time I first encountered the problem,
>     I couldn't, so that's obviously improved.
>   

-- 
Gllug mailing list  -  Gllug at gllug.org.uk
http://lists.gllug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug