diff --git a/src/kernel/libroot/posix/sys/Jamfile b/src/kernel/libroot/posix/sys/Jamfile
index 5c3ec8cb11..7d119a8108 100644
--- a/src/kernel/libroot/posix/sys/Jamfile
+++ b/src/kernel/libroot/posix/sys/Jamfile
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ KernelMergeObject posix_sys.o :
  	times.c
  	uio.c
  	umask.c
- 	wait.c
+ 	uname.c
+	wait.c
 	: -fPIC -DPIC
 	;
diff --git a/src/kernel/libroot/posix/sys/uname.c b/src/kernel/libroot/posix/sys/uname.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..430c5f9191
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/kernel/libroot/posix/sys/uname.c
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+/*
+** Copyright 2004, Jérôme Duval jerome.duval@free.fr. All rights reserved.
+** Distributed under the terms of the Haiku License.
+*/
+
+
+#include <sys/utsname.h>
+#include <OS.h>
+#include <errno.h>
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <string.h>
+
+int
+uname(struct utsname *info)
+{
+	system_info sinfo;
+
+	if (!info) {
+		errno = B_BAD_VALUE;
+		return -1;
+	}
+
+	get_system_info(&sinfo);
+
+	strlcpy(info->sysname, sinfo.kernel_name, B_FILE_NAME_LENGTH);
+	strlcpy(info->version, sinfo.kernel_build_date, B_OS_NAME_LENGTH);
+	strlcat(info->version, sinfo.kernel_build_time, B_OS_NAME_LENGTH);
+	sprintf(info->release, "%Ld", sinfo.kernel_version);
+
+	// TODO fill nodename field when we have hostname info
+
+	return 0;
+}
+