From: Dalibor Sramek <dali@...>
Date: 2003-01-06T21:57:06+09:00
Subject: Re: the operating system release

On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 09:20:27PM +0900, TOTO wrote:
> What's the ruby way to find out "the operating system release"? Thanks.

IMO there is no simple way to find it out.
I would first test the PLATFORM constant.
If it is some kind of UNIX you can use
`uname`
or the uname module from
http://www.ruby-lang.org/raa/list.rhtml?name=sys-uname

For Windows I don't know.

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