[izpack-users] Problem with the os attribute 'windows'

[Hal Vaughan]

On Monday 27 February 2006 10:28, Trasher wrote:
> Hi,
> I think I found the post Klaus was talkin about...
> [quote]
>
>  Here are the values Sun uses for the os.name property to identify
> various platforms: os.name
>       AIX
>       Digital Unix
>       FreeBSD
>       HP UX
>       Irix
>       Linux
>       Mac OS
>       MPE/iX
>       Netware 4.11
>       OS/2
>       Solaris
>       Windows 2000
>       Windows 95
>       Windows 98
>       Windows NT
>       Windows XP
>
> http://mindprod.com/jgloss/properties.html

Just as an esoteric side note, I believe that some of the JVMs that run 
on Linux (like Blackdown) use different names under Linux, like 
GNU/Linux or something else.  That should not be a problem for now, 
since none of them provide a workable GUI.

(<rant>This stuff tickes me off.  One of the major purposes for Java was 
to make a program work the same on any platform and now some of the 
open source implementations are already doing their own thing in some 
places.  I can understand Sun's reluctance and slowness in open 
sourcing Java to make sure things like this don't happen.  The 
standards have been set -- it'd be nice if ALL versions or attempted 
versions followed them so I don't have to re-write my code for some 
versions!</rant>)

Hal