[PATCH] add detection of other distros and support for SUSE and ALTLinux to tools/hal-system-power-*

[Luis Villa]

On 8/17/05, Danny Kukawka <danny.kukawka at web.de> wrote:
> On Thursday 18 August 2005 04:28, David Zeuthen wrote:
> > On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 10:55 +0200, Danny Kukawka wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > this patch adds dectection of more distrubutions (ALTLinux, SUSE,
> > > Mandrake, Slackware, Debian and Gentoo) and adds support for powersave
> > > [1] for SUSE and ALTLinux (powersave will be included to next release ALT
> > > Linux 3.0) to the scripts.
> >
> > Cool, thanks a lot.. I've been wanting to announce this but the mailing
> > lists were down so you beat me to it!
> 
> ;-))
> 
> I don't see currently a way to detect Ubuntu, since they not provides a
> special *-release or *-version. They provides only a debian file. If there is
> anyone with contact to Ubuntu: I don't know why they don't provide such a
> file, but they should. ;)

/etc/lsb-release ?

Luis