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		throwaway173738 5 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Getting bitten by Intel's poor naming schemes Try cat /etc/os-release. The codenames are probably there. I know they are for Debian.

ramses0 5 days ago [–]

Thank you! I was just about to kvetch about how difficult it was to map (eg) "Trixie" == "13" because /etc/debian_version didn't have it... I always ended up having to search the internet for it which seemed especially dumb for Debian!

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