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Date:      Wed, 5 Nov 2008 12:36:31 +0100
From:      "Rada alive" <alive@dienub.org>
To:        "Frank Shute" <frank@shute.org.uk>, mdh <mdh_lists@yahoo.com>,  freebsd-chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: noob question
Message-ID:  <f81dfec40811050336r645968c9h59a90b9f245b18eb@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20081105063134.GA34055@melon.esperance-linux.co.uk>
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On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 7:31 AM, Frank Shute <frank@shute.org.uk> wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 06:30:32PM -0800, mdh wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > A couple of tips for the future: address your questions to
> > > questions@ rather than chat@ and preface your question with the
> > > output of:
> > >
> > > $ uname -rms
> >
> > The uname -rms command only works on the HURD operating system.  It
> > returns the current running version of Richard Stallman on stdout.
> > For FreeBSD users, I suggest the alternate uname -smr command, which
> > returns their OSname, OSversion, and arch on stdout.
> >
>
> :)
>
> If RMS runs like the HURD, then he's probably suffering from some
> lengthy, terminal disease ;)
>
> FreeBSD should return the OS details for uname -beast
>
> Could be used in send-pr etc. and is easy to remember like -rms!
>
>
> Regards,
>
> --
>
>  Frank
>
>
>  Contact info: http://www.shute.org.uk/misc/contact.html
>
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What about just using uname -a?



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