Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 11:16:28 +1000 From: Norberto Meijome <freebsd@meijome.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: own OS-Name Message-ID: <20080801111628.70e8367f@ayiin> In-Reply-To: <87k5f242by.fsf@kobe.laptop> References: <4891256E.6090903@yahoo.de> <20080731075515.c0f01099.wmoran@potentialtech.com> <4891B48E.9090907@yahoo.de> <87k5f242by.fsf@kobe.laptop>
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On Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:20:49 +0300
Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> wrote:
> It's certainly possible. The OpenBSD team did this when they split off
> NetBSD. The Dragonfly BSD folks have done it already when they branched
> from FreeBSD 4.X. So you can definitely do it. But you should probably
> understand a lot about the way the system works before doing that, and
> changing just the "uname" output is not enough.
there is also the other side of the coin, that of user-land apps that parse the
output of uname to handle things in different ways. It may not be the best way
to do things , but it's done quite a bit. Of course, this is be irrelevant if
you plan to have a completely locked up OS ....
And there is also all the other software that is bundled in base, openssh, comes
to mind:
$ nc -v localhost 22
Connection to localhost 22 port [tcp/ssh] succeeded!
SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_4.5p1 FreeBSD-20061110
....
and man pages, and doc,
B
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