os.name

[anonymous]

Could someone tell me the values of
System.getProperty( "os.name" )
for the various Windows architectures and Linux?

 

[Andrew Thompson]

Could someone tell me the values of
System.getProperty( "os.name" )
for the various Windows architectures and Linux?

Why does your app. need to know?

 

[Chris Smith]

Could someone tell me the values of
System.getProperty( "os.name" )
for the various Windows architectures and Linux?

It's not specified.

Practically speaking, you can count on the property to contain some
case-variant of "windows" for a Windows system, and "linux" for a Linux
system. However, I wouldn't count on more than that at all. For
example, it wouldn't suprise me if Windows 2000 reports itself as NT, or
some such thing.

--
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Chris Smith - Lead Software Developer/Technical Trainer
MindIQ Corporation

 

[Christophe Vanfleteren]

Why does your app. need to know?

Sometimes you need to, in order to integrate better with the host OS. Like
when trying to open a webbrowser or filemanager for example.

 

[Real Gagnon]

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Could someone tell me the values of
System.getProperty( "os.name" )
for the various Windows architectures and Linux?

Visit http://www.tolstoy.com/samizdat/sysprops.html
for a list of possible values.

Bye.

 

[Andrew Thompson]

Sometimes you need to, in order to integrate better with the host OS. Like
when trying to open a webbrowser or filemanager for example.

Like so?
<http://www.physci.org/codes/display.jsp?fl=/edu/stanford/ejalbert/BrowserLauncher.java#468>

Yes, I realised it _might_ be something like that.

OTOH I asked in case it turns out to be..

"I want to store some options in the users
default directory and know that on XP it
is located..."

 

[Liz]

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Visit http://www.tolstoy.com/samizdat/sysprops.html
for a list of possible values.

"Windows XP" for widows xp professional (is not in the list above)

 

[Liz]

Why does your app. need to know?

I had one application that looked at this value so
I could print out a message that the program was or
was not tested on that OS.

 

[Andrew Thompson]

I had one application that looked at this value so
I could print out a message that the program was or
was not tested on that OS.

Good point. BrowserLauncher uses it as well..
<http://www.physci.org/codes/display.jsp?fl=/edu/stanford/ejalbert/BrowserLauncher.java#202>

There are certainly valid uses for it, but consider..

<untested snippet>
if (s.equals("Mac OS")) {
eol = "\n";
} else if.. {
...
} else { // windows!!
eol = "\n\r";
}
</untested snippet>

...as yet, we do not know why the
OP needs the information, and most
of the reasons for wanting it,
are bad ones. ;-)

 

[Liz]

Good point. BrowserLauncher uses it as well..
<http://www.physci.org/codes/display.jsp?fl=/edu/stanford/ejalbert/BrowserLa
uncher.java#202>

There are certainly valid uses for it, but consider..

<untested snippet>
if (s.equals("Mac OS")) {
eol = "\n";
} else if.. {
...
} else { // windows!!
eol = "\n\r";
}
</untested snippet>

..as yet, we do not know why the
OP needs the information, and most
of the reasons for wanting it,
are bad ones. ;-)

I just used it for CYA

 

[Andrew Thompson]

....
I just used it for CYA

Always a good strategy. ;-)

 

[Christophe Vanfleteren]

Andrew Thompson wrote:

Like so?

Yes, I realised it _might_ be something like that.

Yeah, sure, that's very easy to say afterwards

 

[Andrew Thompson]

Yeah, sure, that's very easy to say afterwards

Retrospective Perfection, my specialty. ;-)

 

[P.Hill]

"Windows XP" for widows xp professional (is not in the list above)

I sent Chris at Samizdat Productions a run of his sample program on
a Windows XP home edition. I assume we'll see the results on his site
sometime soon.

-Paul

 

[gomotocross]

OS.NAME list

Here is a simple list
AIX
Digital Unix
FreeBSD
HP UX
Irix
Linux
Mac OS
Mac OS X
MPE/iX
Netware 4.11
OS/2
Solaris
Windows 2000
Windows 7
Windows 95
Windows 98
Windows NT
Windows Vista
Windows XP