os_info

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Overview

Library for detecting the operating system type and version.

Based on os_type. The main difference of os_info is that this library separates completely incompatible operating systems by conditional compilation and uses specific system API whenever is possible.

Usage

To use this crate, add os_info as a dependency to your project's Cargo.toml:

[dependencies]
os_info = "2.0.2"

This project has serde as an optional dependency, so if you don't need it, then you can speed up compilation disabling it:

[dependencies]
os_info = { version = "2.0.0", default-features = false }

Example

let info = os_info::get();

// Print full information:
println!("OS information: {}", info);

// Print information separately:
println!("Type: {}", info.os_type());
println!("Version: {}", info.version());
println!("Bitness: {}", info.bitness());

Right now, the following operating system types can be returned:

Unknown
Android
Emscripten
Linux
Redhat
RedHatEnterprise
Ubuntu
Debian
Arch
CentOS
Fedora
Amazon
Alpine
SUSE Linux Enterprise
openSUSE
Macos
Redox
Windows

If you need support for more OS types, I am looking forward to your Pull Request.

Requirements

On Linux based systems this library requires that lsb_release is installed.

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