Factoring out standard system information

[Thiago Macieira]

Ryan wrote:
>> I'd say that this is one of those things that could probably fairly
>> easily go the FD.o route.  This is a problem that a lot of software
>> has to deal with (I maintain something similar at the office) and is
>> generally a pain to keep up to date, so the less versions of such
>> that we have in the OSS world, the better.
>
>Is it even possible to move this to a fd.o standard as this is OS
> specific information?

Isn't this what HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) is about?

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