Rawhide: similar systems reports different operating system

[Antonio M]

2009/1/29 Michael Schwendt <mschwendt.tmp0701.nospam at arcor.de>:
> On Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:30:14 +0100, Antonio wrote:
>
>> >>>>> but Webmin reports one as:
>> >>>>>  Operating system       Redhat Linux Fedora 10.90
>> >>>>> and the other as:
>> >>>>> Operating system        Redhat Linux Fedora 10.91
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> Why???
>
> This is dumb. There is no product with that name. The company is called
> "Red Hat", not "Redhat". And the distribution (or package collection) on
> your machine is "Fedora", not "Redhat Linux Fedora". Why do they make up
> their own names?
>
> As where the version comes from, please give proper details as almost
> everyone else on these mailing-lists. Quote the exact commands you run to
> query the "fedora-release" package on both machines. Alternatively, examine
> the Webmin source code to find out what it does to read the Fedora version.
> Perhaps it really parses /etc/fedora-release, but maybe it doesn't and checks
> the fedora-release/redhat-release package version/release values.
>
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Michael,

you have missed my post where I say that I see different releases on
the progress bar at start-up with same fedora-release in /etc, so
Webmin is not the culprit.

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Antonio Montagnani
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