Remind me (pls)... Distro Version Discovery

[Adam McGreggor]

On Sat, Dec 01, 2007 at 07:25:13AM +1100, Peter Garrett wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 20:33:14 +0100
> Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net> wrote:
> 
> > Adam McGreggor wrote:
> > > I'm after the app which tells me which *distro* I'm using, and the
> > > version; it's not uname(1), and I've seen it posted before, here
> > > (greping 450MB of list-archive just ain't gonna happen).
> > 
> > cat /etc/issue

I wanted an app, I knew about /etc/$distro_file

> Or:
> 
> lsb_release -a

That's the one, cheers!