Roll your own Distro - Need help

i try to make a script to Get Linux Distro Name . but im some confused by now , well the methods to gets distro name are diffentts

Possible commands :

1 - $ cat /etc/lsb-release 2 - $ cat /etc/issue 3 - $ dmesg | head -1 4 - $ cat /proc/version 5 - $ cat /etc/slackware-version 6 - $ cat/etc/debian-verion 7 - etc ... etc ... etc ... etc ... etc ... etc ...

I started using Linux around 1996  with  a RH based distro Definite Linux  by  Jason Clifford the only other British Distro besides CB that I can recall.

Hello, thought I would say hi & introduce myself.  I installed statler with backports repo yesterday & am very impressed, everything works great out the box.  I've been using linux for a few years now & have switched to cb as my permanent distro.  Good to be back to a debian based distro as well, not used debian since I used lenny on a home server a few years ago &a

I'm sure we already have several threads on this in the archives, but I keep thinking about it, and we often state in these forums that "CrunchBang is basically Debian with Openbox and a few UI and performance tweaks."  So, is CrunchBang a separate distro, or is it "basically Debian"?  Yes, there is the separate repository, but aside from a patched library or two

I started looking for another no-fuss distro for my old PC (I think Pentium 4 with 756mb ram) and came across AntiX.  I'm checking it out since it seems to have my wireless usb drivers built into the liveiso (base).  Also, has anyone had any first-hand experience with this distro?  I like their mission statement, but I'm slightly confused with how they manage their sources

pvsage wrote:SoylentGreen wrote:Crunchbang may be based on Debian repos, but it at least seems to have a refined direction with it's package sets.That's the upside of a distro having a single developer (corenominal) instead of a bureaucracy.  #!

he folks at Dreamlinux have a goal, to make a distro where ‘dreams can come true’. The idea is to take a solid core Linux distro, Debian, make it look pretty, add the coolest and most-needed apps, then make it easy to install to just about anything.

Hello.I'm Alessandro from Italy, i'm a linux user* from many years so i tried many distro during this time (ubuntu,debian,archlinux,RH equivalent, etc).I would like to congratulate this comunity, which together with the antiX comunity, are a nice source of information for debian users.Now i try a little crunchbang on virtualbox.Note:I tried even don't linux distro as:OpenBSD and Ope

hello from belgium.Watching the progress of #! and thinking of replacing my Zenwalk distro just to play with a (good) Debian Style distro instead of a (good) Slackware style distro.In fact, the main reason is to have acces to the repository of Debian which is quite bigger than the ones for Slackware/ZW.Cheers,-S