Re: that old GNU/Linux argument

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Antonio Olivares wrote:
$ cat /etc/redhat-release
Fedora release 8 (Werewolf)
$ uname -o
GNU/Linux

John

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Tried this command in slax
uname -o which according to man uname -o, --operating-system
              print the operating system

Slax is based on Slackware Linux, here's the result(s)

root@slax:~# cat /etc/slax-version
Slax 6.0.7
root@slax:~# cat /etc/slackware-version
Slackware 12.1.0
root@slax:~# uname -o
GNU/Linux


It is GNU/Linux.  Should this be tried with Ubuntu, Suse, Gentoo, ..., etc?

Let's see:

rpm -qf `which uname`
coreutils-6.10-27.fc9.x86_64

and of course rpmq -i coreutils:
Name        : coreutils                    Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version     : 6.10                              Vendor: Fedora Project
Release     : 27.fc9                        Build Date: Fri 04 Jul 2008 12:37:00 PM EDT
Install Date: Wed 09 Jul 2008 02:15:25 PM EDT      Build Host: x86-5
Group       : System Environment/Base       Source RPM: coreutils-6.10-27.fc9.src.rpm
Size        : 11290040                         License: GPLv3+
Signature   : DSA/SHA1, Tue 08 Jul 2008 11:23:50 AM EDT, Key ID b44269d04f2a6fd2
Packager    : Fedora Project
URL         : http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/
Summary     : The GNU core utilities: a set of tools commonly used in shell scripts
Description :
These are the GNU core utilities.  This package is the combination of
the old GNU fileutils, sh-utils, and textutils packages.

So, you want to use a GNU utility to "prove" that the OS is GNU/Linux? Sounds rather like GNU made an assertion and is using that assertion as a proof.

BTW, I wouldn't have expected a package of GNU utilities to say anything else.

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