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Figure out which distro I'm using with Zsh script [duplicate]

I'm making a script that installs some basic needs of mine on my newly installed Linux. However depending on the Linux distro the contents and commands would be different. In Arch Linux I would use ...
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Choose kernel for specific hardware

I have old system with an AMD Athlon 1,2 GHz processor and [SiS] 65x/M650/740 graphics (output from lspci). Recently I discovered on a german ubuntu page that since version 10.10 some older ...
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Am I in the right direction for a linux os?

I compiled the linux kernel by downloading it from kernel.org, put it on my desktop, and opened up terminal. I changed to the linux-3.2.13 folder, typed mr proper. Then I use "make menuconfig" to ...
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Kernels of different distributions of Unix and of Linux

I have heard that different distributions of Linux have the same Linux kernel up to that the Linux kernels may be in different versions. Do different distributions of Unix also share the same kernel ...
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Oldest Linux machine you still run

What is your oldest machine you ever installed Linux on and currently still run? What are the specs, kernel version or distro, and for what purpose?