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Bug 670266 - Support /etc/os-release for retrieving system info
Support /etc/os-release for retrieving system info
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 688981
Product: system-monitor
Classification: Core
Component: sysinfo
3.3.x
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: System-monitor maintainers
System-monitor maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2012-02-17 09:18 UTC by Robert Roth
Modified: 2012-11-29 08:46 UTC
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Description Robert Roth 2012-02-17 09:18:51 UTC 
There is now a freedesktop standard for retrieving OS name, version, etc [1]
We should use it as the default (and fallback to the current behavior if not available) as this one has the user-friendly names of the OS, and most of the information we currently mine from lsb_release. 
Implementing this would probably fix bug 557245.

[1] http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/os-release.html 
    http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/os-release
Comment 1 Robert Roth 2012-11-29 08:46:43 UTC 
Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 688981 ***