RFR: 8303485: Replacing os.name for operating system customization [v3]
Eirik Bjorsnos
duke at openjdk.org
Tue Mar 14 18:31:54 UTC 2023
On Tue, 14 Mar 2023 18:15:46 GMT, Roger Riggs <rriggs at openjdk.org> wrote:
>> src/java.base/share/classes/jdk/internal/util/OperatingSystem.java line 29:
>>
>>> 27:
>>> 28: /**
>>> 29: * Enumeration of operating system types and testing for the current OS.
>>
>> Would it be more correct to say an enumerating of operating system names rather than types?
>
> It is more OS type or kind than name; there are multiple distros that are Linux, i.e. Ubuntu, Fedora, Oracle Linux, etc..
> It is not equivalent to `os.name`.
'Operating system families' seems well-established ?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Operating_system_families
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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/12931
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