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README.md

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-### Info
+### requirements
 
-requires Linux kernel version 2.6.32
+requires Linux kernel version 2.6.32 or newer, which is the smallest compilation target for Go.
+This prevents us from running on pretty old operating systems like SLES 10 and older.
+
+- SLES >= 11
+
+
+## `distro`package
+
+This package supports detecting different os families, architectures, distributions and distribution versions.
+
+### supportes OS families
+The `distro` package supports these families and detecting their distro (or os) version.
+
+- aix (does not have distributions)
+- darwin (different os names depending on version)
+- linux (see below)
+- solaris (see below)
+- windows 
+
+### supported `linux` distributions
+
+- Alpine Linux
+- ALT Linux
+- Amazon
+- Arch Linux
+- CentOS (and CentOS Stream, TencentOS)
+- Clear Linux
+- Cumulus Linux
+- Debian
+- Deepin
+- Devuan
+- Gentoo
+- Linux Mint
+- Mandriva
+- OpenWrt
+- Oracle Linux
+- RHEL
+- Slackware
+- SMGL
+- SUSE
+- Ubuntu
+- Uos
+
+### supported `solaris` distributions
+
+- NexentaOS
+- OmniOS
+- OpenIndiana
+- SmartOS
+- Solaris (= Oracle Solaris)
+
+### `windows`
+
+The windows versioning is the same as the version string provided by the `WinVer.exe`.
 
-- SLES >= 11

distro/README.md

@@ -1,15 +1,16 @@
-# distro
 
+# `distro`package
 
 This package supports detecting different os families, architectures, distributions and distribution versions.
 
 ## supportes OS families
+The `distro` package supports these families and detecting their distro (or os) version.
 
-- aix
-- darwin
-- linux
-- solaris
-- windows
+- aix (does not have distributions)
+- darwin (different os names depending on version)
+- linux (see below)
+- solaris (see below)
+- windows 
 
 ## supported `linux` distributions