> * Third party Software vendors have no easy way to figure out, which version
> of Ubuntu is installed on a particular computer in order to deal with backward
> compatibility issues: There is no ``/etc/Ubuntu_version`` and the file
> ``/etc/debian_version`` still tells ``testing/unstable``.
/etc/lsb-release exists, and should be used instead.
> * Third party Software vendors have no easy way to figure out, which version Ubuntu_ version` ` and the file debian_ version` ` still tells ``testing/ unstable` `.
> of Ubuntu is installed on a particular computer in order to deal with backward
> compatibility issues: There is no ``/etc/
> ``/etc/
/etc/lsb-release exists, and should be used instead.
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aurelien naldi