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Mapping version number to version nameHi all, Happy New Year! I know I can get my Debian's version number in /etc/debian_version Thank you -- I will not purchase any computing equipment from manufacturers that recommend Windows Vista or any other Microsoft® products. __________________________________________________ -- Bookmark/Search this post with: 
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Mapping version number to version name
Ottavio Caruso wrote:
> Hi all, Happy New Year!
>
> I know I can get my Debian's version number in /etc/debian_version
> file.
> But how I map this to its name (Sarge, Potato, Woody)?
>
> Thank you
>
Happy New Year to You too.
There is a list of releases with numbers at http://www.debian.org/releases/
but the list stops at 3. something. Im using testing and my release # is
4.0 . I hope this helps some.
GLR
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Mapping version number to version name
Gary Roach wrote:
> There is a list of releases with numbers at
>http://www.debian.org/releases/
> but the list stops at 3. something. Im using testing and my release
# is
> 4.0 . I hope this helps some.
Yes, it does. Thank you
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Ottavio Caruso
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