• interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    It is for the situation “what even is this OS” that aren’t answered by uname -r

    But since you need to know what OS this is to install this program with the package manager, it’s only useful if it was previously installed during the initial setup.

    I guess its one of those program every OS should have installed. Like screen.

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      2 months ago

      That’s what cat /etc/os-release is for.