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On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 12:59:24PM -0700, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 08:50:38PM +0100, Josef Karthauser wrote:
> > >=20
> > > RH8 is at 2.4.18. The linuxulator sets the value to 2.4.2 as that
> > > was the kernel revision in RH 7.2
> > > Therefore: try 2.4.18
> > >=20
> >=20
> > Ahha, that appears to work:
> >     sysctl compat.linux.osrelease=3D2.4.18
> >=20
> > I've since found that I was nailing the values in /etc/sysctl.conf,
> >     #compat.linux.osname=3DFreeBSD
> >     #compat.linux.osrelease=3D5.0-current
> > so that opera reported the correct things.
>=20
> This was actually the primary reason for having osname and osrelease
> in the first place: people wanted their Linux browser to report
> FreeBSD :-)
>=20
> BTW: you can have this on a per-jail basis, so you have a way to
> have opera report FreeBSD, while still making Vmware happy.
> =20

Swell :)

J.
--=20
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