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Re: Possible operating system names?

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From	Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk>
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Date	Thu, 22 Sep 2016 19:24:08 -0400
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On 9/22/2016 6:29 AM, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
> On 2016-09-21 19:44, mcheung63@gmail.com wrote:
>> Hope this help
>
> So where does FreeBSD fall into that group? Java definitely works on my
> FreeBSD system. ;-)

It does. Question is whether it is "common".  :-)

> I guess one needs to delve into the Java source code to see how the
> "os.name" retrieves the actual OS name.

The source code for each platform.

:-(

I believe that part is using OS specific call
(on Windows it uses GetVersionEx).

Arne

Thread

Possible operating system names? Oliver Ruebenacker <curoli@gmail.com> - 2016-09-21 08:25 -0700
  Re: Possible operating system names? mcheung63@gmail.com - 2016-09-21 11:44 -0700
    Re: Possible operating system names? Graeme Geldenhuys <graemeg@example.net> - 2016-09-22 11:29 +0100
      Re: Possible operating system names? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2016-09-22 19:24 -0400
  Re: Possible operating system names? Daniel Pitts <usenet@coloraura.com> - 2016-09-25 09:01 -0700

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