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10243 :: How to get operating system information in nim-lang?

• ploxotnuj1 (orginal) [2023-06-04T19:01:38+02:00] view original

  how to get operating system information in nim-lang?

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• SpotlightKid (orginal) [2023-06-04T22:32:46+02:00] view original

  Try this: https://github.com/juancarlospaco/psutil-nim

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• Araq (orginal) [2023-06-04T23:22:33+02:00] view original

  Or like so:

  when defined(linux):
    ...
  elif defined(windows):
    ...
  elif defined(macosx):
    ...
  elif defined(bsd):
    ...
  Run

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• treeform (orginal) [2023-06-04T23:25:59+02:00] view original

  I was trying to make one a long time ago: https://github.com/treeform/sysinfo I would just grab the code that gets the info you want out of the lib.

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• Araq (orginal) [2023-06-04T23:36:08+02:00] view original

  Well there is also https://github.com/nim-lang/osinfo.git

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• dlesnoff (orginal) [2023-06-05T14:56:36+02:00] view original

  I made a Stack Overflow answer to this almost the same question with basically the same answers: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/74320430/getting-hardware-info-in-nim-lang/74332136#74332136

  Please use a good search engine before posting. Why is there almost no Nim developer that uses Stack Overflow?

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• tmsa04 (orginal) [2023-06-06T03:38:40+02:00] view original

  https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/351557/on-what-linux-distributions-can-i-rely-on-the-presence-of-etc-os-release

  On Linux, the file /etc/os-release can be helpful in most cases.

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• dlesnoff (orginal) [2023-06-06T11:44:34+02:00] view original

  On Linux, the file /etc/os-release can be helpful in most cases

  According to the SE post, these are distros shipped with systemd.

  Please use a good search engine before posting.

  Sorry, I have been quite harsh here. You asked for operating system information contrarily to the SO post asking for hardware information.

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• tmsa04 (orginal) [2023-06-06T14:20:23+02:00] view original

  At the bottom of that link is a further link to here, which explains it is hoped that this format is widely adopted even on non-systemd distros: http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/os-release The date on that post is 2012, so the concept has been in existence for quite some time now. /etc/os-release is certainly present on Artix and Devuan, which are both non-systemd.

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