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Re:Elementary OS 5.1 Hera by rehemiau on Friday December 06, 2019 @10:42AM (#21722735)
Does elementary still return their release codename instead of the base ubuntu release for `lsb_release -cs` in shell?
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Re:Elementary OS 5.1 Hera by cassidyjames on Friday December 06, 2019 @01:06PM (#21724405)
Yes, because elementary OS is not Ubuntu. In the past, we carried newer versions of GTK or other core libraries, so pretending to be Ubuntu would actually do more harm than good.

However, we have added an `--upstream` or `-u` flag to lsb_release like other Linux-based OSes to point to an upstream release if the downstream release is not supported. I believe this has been adopted for installers of tools like Ruby and Node.

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Re:Elementary OS 5.1 Hera by rehemiau on Friday December 06, 2019 @02:43PM (#21725272)
Makes sense, I hope all installer tools will start using it
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Re:Elementary OS 5.1 Hera by anderber on Friday December 06, 2019 @12:04PM (#21723703)
That's correct. They do show the Ubuntu build on the "About" section.
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