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[edit] Examples

Why is there nearly identical examples in the table? This doesn't illustrate anything. --Ysangkok 14:54, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

These examples show that uname behaves differently on different systems. --Abdull 10:49, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
I mean, why is Windows and Linux represented so many times. Why not just one for each OS? Example:
Cygwin (Windows XP), Pentium 4
CYGWIN_NT-5.1
Cygwin
i686
unknown
unknown
2006-01-20 13:28
1.5.19(0.150/4/2)

Cygwin (Windows 2000), AMD Athlon
CYGWIN_NT-5.0
Cygwin
i686
unknown
unknown
2006-01-20 13:28
1.5.19(0.150/4/2)
--Ysangkok 17:43, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

I for one would like to see an agreement on what constitutes a "valid" example for the table, particularly what's useful and what's deemed "useless crud" without any explanation by certain users as to what exactly is "useful" and what's "crud." If we go very strict, then only one example is necessary and the table of examples isn't needed at all.

So what then is useful? Examples of responses from different linux distros? Is it the CPU type that is relevant? If we go the "one for each OS" route, than where do we delineate what makes a different "OS" then? Kernel branch? Unix vs Unix-like? Should OS X/Darwin even be show as an example when BSD is already present? And since when was Cygwin itself an "OS?" -Scaredpoet, 22:35 08 December 2007 UTC

[edit] More examples

This article really needs a better AIX example, possibly something for Tru64, and anything running on IA64 hardware. I don't have access to any of these systems - does anyone else? 208.66.212.43 (talk) 04:25, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

I updated the AIX example. --Unixguy (talk) 16:11, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Trimmed the list again

Per the discussion above, there's no need to make the example list comprehensive. most examples impart little information to the reader, and I'd argue that we really only need one or two, but we're not having eleven at any rate. Chris Cunningham (talk) 12:11, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] uname gives KERNEL info, not OS info

Please differentiate between kernel and Operating System in this article and explain that the uname command gives only kernel-level information. While it is supposed to be able to also give OS info, almost every system fails in this regard (including Linux, Mac, Cygwin, and Solaris). I was hoping to find a link to such a resource on this page ... it's very frustrating to have to tell my UNIX developers over and over that our Mac server isn't running the "darwin" operating system and that it is really a genuine Macintosh (its single-line default /etc/motd stating "Welcome to Darwin!" doesn't help). The correct command on Linux for OS info is lsb_release -a although this command isn't implemented by all systems (I find grep . /etc/*-release /etc/*version is more reliable). The correct command for Mac OS X is sw_vers, for AIX is oslevel, and for Windows (unless you call the OS itself "Cygwin") is ver. --Adam KatzΔtalk 19:01, 28 May 2008 (UTC)