[issue12158] platform: add linux_version()

[Charles-François Natali]

Charles-François Natali <neologix at free.fr> added the comment:

Do we really need to expose a such Linux-centric and sparingly used
function to the platform module?
Since it's needed by several tests, why not add it to Lib/test/support.py?
That way, we could also make it return a tuple without breaking any
existing convention.

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