deostroll wrote: > I just found that you could use platform.system() to get the > underlying os used. But is there a way to get the distro used...? Major modern distros support 'lsb_release', I suppose: $ lsb_release -i -r -c -d Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 9.04 Release: 9.04 Codename: jaunty If that doesn't work; try '/etc/issue'. -- JanC