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facter (executable and ruby module for collecting OS information)

Facter is a lightweight program that gathers basic node information
about the hardware and operating system. Facter is especially useful
for retrieving things like operating system names, hardware
characteristics, IP addresses, MAC addresses, and SSH keys.