root/modules/branches/2.2/irc/functions.inc.php

<?
// Try to determine the distro and kernel of the current machine
function irc_getversioninfo() {
  // Various places that may have the Distro Name..
  $version = "";
  $locations = array(
      'Redhat' => '/etc/redhat-release', 
    'Fedora' => '/etc/fedora-release', 
    'Debian' => '/etc/debian_version', 
    'SuSE' => '/etc/SuSE-release', 
    'Gentoo' => '/etc/gentoo-release'
  );
  foreach ($locations as $distro => $loc) {
    if (is_readable($loc)) {
        $fh = fopen($loc, "r");
        if ($version != "") {
            $version .= " OR ".$distro.' '.fgets($fh, 80);
        } else {
            $version = $distro.' '.fgets($fh, 80);
        }
    }
  }
  if ($version == "") { 
    return "Unknown Version";
  } else {
    $lastchar = substr("$version", strlen("$version") - 1, 1);
               if ($lastchar == "\n")
               {
                       $version = substr("$version", 0, -1);
               } 
      return $version; 
  }
}
?>