NAME

Devel::Platform::Info::Linux - Retrieve Linux platform metadata

SYNOPSIS

use Devel::Platform::Info::Linux;
my $info = Devel::Platform::Info::Linux->new();
my $data = $info->get_info();

DESCRIPTION

This module is a driver to determine platform metadata regarding the Linux operating system. It should be called indirectly via it's parent Devel::Platform::Info

INTERFACE

The Constructor

• new

  Simply constructs the object.

Methods

• get_info

  Returns a hash reference to the Linux platform metadata.

  Returns the following keys:

  source
  archname
  osname
  osvers
  oslabel
  is32bit
  is64bit
  osflag
  
  codename
  kernel
  kname
  kvers

REFERENCES

The following links were used to understand how to retrieve the metadata:

* http://distrowatch.com/
* Wikipedia pages for various Linux and Unix based OSes
* http://search.cpan.org/dist/Sys-Info-Driver-Linux

BUGS, PATCHES & FIXES

There are no known bugs at the time of this release. However, if you spot a bug or are experiencing difficulties, that is not explained within the POD documentation, please send bug reports and patches to the RT Queue (see below).

RT Queue: http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=Devel-Platform-Info

AUTHORS

Barbie (BARBIE) <barbie@cpan.org>
Brian McCauley (NOBULL) <nobull67@gmail.com>
Colin Newell (NEWELL) <newellc@cpan.org>
Jon 'JJ' Allen (JONALLEN) <jj@jonallen.info>

COPYRIGHT & LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2010-2014 Birmingham Perl Mongers

This distribution is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the Artistic License 2.0.