http://linuxexchange.org/tags/distro/?type=rssquestions tagged <span class="tag">distro</span>enWed, 13 Jul 2011 05:42:59 -0400http://linuxexchange.org/questions/2632/how-can-i-programatically-determine-the-linux-distribution<p>There are various ways of finding out what Linux distribution is currently running, using commands such as:</p> <pre><code>uname -a cat /etc/*-release cat /etc/*-version lsb_release -ri </code></pre> <p>Each of them provides me with <em>human-readable</em> information about my system, but they don't seem reliable nor can be easily parsed. Is there some script that can determine popular Linux distributions with accuracy and output something simple like <code>Ubuntu</code> / <code>Slackware</code> / <code>CentOS</code> / <code>Mandriva</code> / etc?</p>fardelianWed, 13 Jul 2011 05:42:59 -0400http://linuxexchange.org/questions/2632/how-can-i-programatically-determine-the-linux-distributiondistrohttp://linuxexchange.org/questions/2532/what-is-the-best-linux-distro<p>i am thinking of moving to linux... </p> <p>what is the best distro for 512mb of ram and a 15gb hard drive</p>Bailey RowlandTue, 03 May 2011 05:16:46 -0400http://linuxexchange.org/questions/2532/what-is-the-best-linux-distrolinuxdistrohttp://linuxexchange.org/questions/935/whats-your-favorite-distro-for-use-with-laptops<p>I have been thinking about changing my laptop over to a more lightweight distro recently. I am currently running Linux Mint mainly because the gf is comfortable with it.</p> <p>So does anyone have any other recommendations?</p>TracerBulletTue, 29 Jun 2010 14:25:46 -0400http://linuxexchange.org/questions/935/whats-your-favorite-distro-for-use-with-laptopslinuxdistrohttp://linuxexchange.org/questions/371/distro-reviews-for-older-hardware<p>I am getting an old laptop running. On my newer or desktop systems I use ubuntu or kubuntu. But for this machine (750MHz PIII, 512 M ram, 1280x1024 display with ATI rage graphics) the ubuntu derivatives fell big, heavy and slow.</p> <p>Would you please point me to some in depth review of distros running on this class of hardware?</p> <p><strong>Edit:</strong> <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Minimal_Linux_distros" rel="nofollow">Here</a> is an undated list of lightweight Linux distributions. Does anybody have recent in depth <em>reviews</em> of any of these?</p>rschulerFri, 07 May 2010 16:50:01 -0400http://linuxexchange.org/questions/371/distro-reviews-for-older-hardwareold-hardwaredistroreviewhttp://linuxexchange.org/questions/1/hybrid-distros<p>Are there any hybrid distros? I'd love to try something that combined Debian and Slackware, for example.</p>win32suxMon, 12 Apr 2010 03:12:35 -0400http://linuxexchange.org/questions/1/hybrid-distrosslackwaredebiandistrohybrid