osinfo — Shared OS-version string¶

pkg/osinfo exposes one function:

// Version returns a human-readable OS version string. On Linux it reports the
// kernel version from /proc/version; on every other platform — and whenever
// /proc/version cannot be read — it falls back to runtime.GOOS.
func osinfo.Version() string

Examples: 6.8.0-124-generic (Linux), darwin, windows.

Why a dedicated package¶

The implementation was promoted out of pkg/telemetry (an unexported helper) so it could be shared without forcing a consumer to import telemetry internals. Both the telemetry collector (the event OSVersion field) and the doctor report support bundle depend on it, guaranteeing one consistent OS string across both surfaces.

Implementation notes¶

The core is structured for testability: the OS name and the /proc/version reader are injected into a pure helper, so every branch (non-Linux fallback, read error, kernel-field extraction) is unit-tested without a platform dependency. See pkg/osinfo/osinfo.go.