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  From: Dan Shearer <dan@shearer.org>
  To  : LinuxSa@linuxsa.org.au
  Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 08:25:31 +0930 (CST)

Re: /etc/issue and /etc/issue.net and other UNICES

On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, Richard Sharpe wrote:

> the contents of /etc/redhat-release in that file, if it exists. Amusingly,
> Mandrake comes with a file called /etc/redhat-release as well :-) 

This is because one of the goals of Mandrake is to be 100% Red
Hat-compatible, at the same time as fixing perceived problems with RH and
introducing much newer technology that they feel is stable enough.

I'm pretty sure redhat-release is used as a tag file by some RH tools.

Dan


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