if($showDistro) {
        @distros = (
        "Gentoo",       "/etc/gentoo-release",
        "Fedora Core",  "/etc/fedora-release",
        "SuSE",         "/etc/SuSE-release",
        "Slackware",    "/etc/slackware-version",
        "Cobalt",       "/etc/cobalt-release",
        "Debian",       "/etc/debian_version",
        "Mandrake",     "/etc/mandrake-release",
        "Mandrake",     "/etc/mandrakelinux-release",
        "Yellow Dog",   "/etc/yellowdog-release",
        "OpenFiler",    "/etc/distro-release",
        "Red Hat",      "/etc/redhat-release"
        );
        $distro = "";
        $distrov = "";
        do {
            if (-e $distros[1]) {
                $distro = $distros[0];
                $distrov = `cat $distros[1] | head -n 1`;
                chomp($distrov);
                $distrov =~ s/[^0-9]*([0-9.]+)[^0-9.]{0,1}.*/$1/;
            }
            shift @distros; shift @distros;
        } until (scalar @distros == 0) || (length $distro > 0);
        if ($distro eq "Debian") {
            if (-e "/etc/lsb-release") {
                $realdistro = `cat /etc/lsb-release | grep DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION`;
                if ($realdistro ne "") {
                    chomp $realdistro;
                    $realdistro =~ s/DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="//;
                    $realdistro =~ s/"$//;
                    $distro     = $realdistro;
                    $distrov    = $realdistro;
                    $distro     =~ s/ [0-9.]+.*$//;
                    $distrov    =~ s/$distro //;
                }
            }
        }
        if ($distro eq "Red Hat") {
            $realdistro = `cat /etc/redhat-release`;
            if ($realdistro =~ "^CentOS") {
                $distro = "CentOS";
            }
        }
    }