NAME Perl::osnames - List possible $^O ($OSNAME) values, with description VERSION This document describes version 0.08 of Perl::osnames (from Perl distribution Perl-osnames), released on 2014-12-18. DESCRIPTION This package contains $data which lists possible values of $^O along with description for each. Tags * unix Unix-like operating systems. This currently excludes beos/haiku. * bsd BSD-derived Unix operating systems. * sysv SysV-derived Unix operating systems. * posix For POSIX-compliant OSes, including fully-, mostly-, and largely-compliant ones (source: ). From what I can gather, dec_osf is not POSIX compliant, although there is a posix package for it. SEE ALSO perlvar Config Devel::Platform::Info The output of "perl -V" App::osnames HOMEPAGE Please visit the project's homepage at . SOURCE Source repository is at . BUGS Please report any bugs or feature requests on the bugtracker website When submitting a bug or request, please include a test-file or a patch to an existing test-file that illustrates the bug or desired feature. AUTHOR perlancar COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE This software is copyright (c) 2014 by perlancar@cpan.org. This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.