From: ptkwt@... (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2003-09-24T06:56:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby package for Linux

In article <VTQbb.3784$UE6.3698@edtnps84>,
Martin DeMello  <martindemello@yahoo.com> wrote:
>Phil Tomson <ptkwt@aracnet.com> wrote:
>> 
>> $ uname -a
>
>Does any distro actually put its name in uname? Just checked RedHat (9)
>and Debian (3.0), and they only have the kernel info in uname, and the
>distribution info in /etc/issue.
>
>martin


Yeah, you're right.  I was looking at it on gentoo, here's what it says:

# uname -a
Linux traveller.home.com 2.4.19-gentoo #1 Mon Apr 29 14:24:34 PDT 2002 
i686 GenuineIntel

A quick look made me think it was giving the distro, but closer inspection 
reveals that gentoo is part of the kernel name.

Phil