Re: [9front] Equivalent of Unix uname

[hiro <23hiro@gmail.com>]

plan9 is distributed with binaries, but installations are kept
up-to-date via source updates from git, so in practice, before you run
sysupdate and mk install yourself you may check the current git
revision.

also keep in mind that in the canonical deployments you will have only
one central fileserver for all your cpu servers and terminals, so if
you know the version of one of your computers you should automatically
be able to imply the version of all other computers.

On 3/9/24, Jacob Moody <moody@posixcafe.org> wrote:
> On 3/9/24 11:31, rockyhotas@firemail.cc wrote:
>> Hello!
>> I'm trying to move the first steps into Plan9.
>> It is not Unix, the user is often warned about this. However, some tools
>> are available in both systems with almost the same usage, like uptime(1)
>> for example. Is there anything equivalent to `uname'? I couldn't find
>> such a tool nor in
>>
>>   <https://fqa.9front.org/fqa8.html>
>>
>> neither in
>>
>>   <https://wiki.9front.org/unix2plan9>
>>
>> If there is not a perfect equivalent tool, is it anyway possible to list
>> some basic information about the current system? For example the OS
>> name,
>> the kernel version, the architecture, the hostname.
>>
>> Bye!
>>
>> Rocky
>
> There is /dev/osversion but its not really particularly insightful.
> Uname is generally used to differentiate different Unixen from
> each other, so I don't see why it would be particularly useful
> on Plan 9.
>
> We also do not generally have version of the kernel per se,
> at least not in the same way something like Linux does.
> For architecture there is $cputype and for host name there
> is $sysname.
>
>
> Hope that helps,
> moody
>
>