From: "Cédric Foll" <cedric.foll-nospam@...>
Date: 2003-01-06T22:20:37+09:00
Subject: Re: the operating system release

You can use the PLATFORM constant to get the OS:

irb(main):001:0> PLATFORM
"i586-mswin32"

If you want to get the version of the OS, under linux (and perhaps other
unix) you can call the command "uname".

os_version = `uname -a`

regards