On Mon, 16 Nov 2020 20:30:36 +0100, Antony wrote in message
<202011162030.36261.Antony.Stone@???>:

> On Monday 16 November 2020 at 20:02:24, Fred wrote:
>
> > Uname -a still shows Debian. Why?
>
> All my Devuan machines (including ones installed as Devuan from the
> start) do that. I guess it's for compatibility with scripts etc
> which know nothing of Devuan, so that they at least know what type of
> system they're running on, even if the init mechanism is different.

..from: uname --help
Usage: uname [OPTION]...
Print certain system information. With no OPTION, same as -s.

  -a, --all                print all information, in the following
  order, except omit -p and -i if unknown:
  -s, --kernel-name        print the kernel name
  -n, --nodename           print the network node hostname
  -r, --kernel-release     print the kernel release
  -v, --kernel-version     print the kernel version

...

..e.g.: uname -v
#1 SMP Debian 5.8.10-1~bpo10+1 (2020-09-26)
arnt@d44:~$ uname -a
Linux d44 5.8.0-0.bpo.2-amd64 #1 SMP Debian \
5.8.10-1~bpo10+1 (2020-09-26) x86_64 GNU/Linux

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