Contents of /etc/issue

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One thing I have noticed is the lack of consistency vis a vis Ubuntu Mate vs other flavors. There is one in particular that I would like to see addressed is the contents of /etc/issue. For e.g. 17.04:

With every other *Ubuntu flavor, the contents of /etc/issue are:

Ubuntu 17.04 \n \l

Whereas with with Ubuntu MATE, the contents are:

Ubuntu Zesty Zapus (development branch) \n \l

Is there a particular reasoning behind not going with the standard here? It would really make things a lot easier if it just reverted to the standard…

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Have you tried lsb_release?

~ > lsb_release -si
Ubuntu
~ > lsb_release -sc
xenial
~ > lsb_release -sr
16.04
~ > lsb_release -sd
Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS
3

-sd gives me the same output but -sr may perhaps give me what is needed. Is there a particular reason why the trend was bucked here though?

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Hi @thisisbasil, You have different than my VM.

~$ cat /etc/issue
Ubuntu 17.04 \n \l
~$ cat /etc/issue.net 
Ubuntu 17.04
~$

Could you have a beta that was supposed to update to be the same as final… except when it isn’t? :smirk:

I installed from the first 17.04 ISO but not sure it ever changed.