8bitzeta / os_info

Rust library to detect the operating system type

os_info

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Overview

This project consists of two parts: the library that can be used to detect the operating system type (including version and bitness) and the command line tool that uses the library.

Library (os_info)

os_info usage

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

[dependencies]
os_info = "3"

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 = "3", 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());
println!("Architecture: {}", info.architecture());

Command line tool (os_info_cli)

A simple wrapper around the os_info library.

Installation

This tool can be installed using the following cargo command:

cargo install os_info_cli

os_info_cli usage

Despite being named os_info_cli during installation, it is actually named os_info. You can use the --help flag to see available options:

os_info --help

Supported operating systems

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

• Alpaquita Linux
• Alpine Linux
• Amazon Linux AMI
• Android
• Arch Linux
• Artix Linux
• CentOS
• Debian
• DragonFly BSD
• Emscripten
• EndeavourOS
• Fedora
• FreeBSD
• Garuda Linux
• Gentoo Linux
• HardenedBSD
• Illumos
• Linux
• macOS (Mac OS X or OS X)
• Manjaro
• Mariner
• MidnightBSD
• Mint
• NetBSD
• NixOS
• OpenBSD
• openSUSE
• Oracle Linux
• Pop!_OS
• Raspberry Pi OS
• Red Hat Linux
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• Redox
• Solus
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
• Ubuntu
• Unknown
• Windows

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

License

os_info is licensed under the MIT license. See LICENSE for the details.