RFR: 8303485: Replacing os.name for operating system customization [v3]

[Eirik Bjorsnos]

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