README.md

osinfo

What is osinfo?

OSinfo is a cross-platform OS Version collection tool. It is designed to unify multiple OS detection methods in a single module that can easily be integrated into other projects.

Officially Supported:

Windows	MacOS	Linux	BSD
Windows Server 2012	10.6 - Snow Leopard	Ubuntu	FreeBSD
Windows Server 2016	10.7 - Lion	Debian	OpenBSD
Windows Server 2019	10.8 - Mountain Lion	MXLinux
Windows 7	10.9 - Mavericks	Mint
Windows 8	10.10 - Yosemite	Kali
Windows 10	10.11 - El Capitan	ParrotOS
	10.12 - Sierra	OpenSUSE Leap
	10.13 - High Sierra	OpenSUSE TumbleWeed
	10.14 - Mojave	OpenSUSE SLES
	10.15 - Catalina	Arch
	11.0 - Big Sur	Manjaro
		Alpine
		Fedora
		RHEL
		CentOS
		Oracle

Example Usage

1. Create fetchinfo.go

   package main

   import (
      "fmt"

      "github.com/JustinTimperio/osinfo"
   )

   func main() {
		release := osinfo.GetVersion()
		fmt.Printf(release.String())
	 }

2. go mod init
3. go mod tidy
4. go run fetchinfo.go

Example Outputs

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Runtime: linux
Architecture: amd64
OS Name: Arch Linux
Version: rolling
Kernel: 5.11.2-arch1-1
Distro: arch
Package Manager: pacman

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Runtime: linux
Architecture: amd64
OS Name: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)
Version: 10
Kernel: 4.19.0-13-amd64
Distro: debian
Package Manager: apt

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Runtime: windows
Architecture: amd64
OS Name: Windows Server 2016 Standard Evaluation
Version: 10
Build: 14393

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Runtime: darwin
Architecture: amd64
OS Name: Mac OS X
Version: 11.0.1
Version Name: MacOS - Big Sur 

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Runtime: freebsd
Architecture: amd64
OS Name: FreeBSD 12.1-RELEASE
Version: 12.1-RELEASE
Kernel: 1201000
Package Manger: pkg

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Runtime: openbsd 
Architecture: amd64
OS Name: OpenBSD 6.7 
Version: 6.7 
Kernel: GENERIC.MP#182 
Package Manger: pkg_add

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