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Date:      Mon, 5 Jul 1999 22:12:12 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Blaz Zupan <blaz@gold.amis.net>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>
Cc:        Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/linux linux_misc.c 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9907052208310.3770-100000@gold.amis.net>
In-Reply-To: <199907051957.NAA57108@harmony.village.org>

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On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, Warner Losh wrote:
> : Let newuname return "Linux" as the OS name and not "FreeBSD". Also, return a
> 
> You may wish to review the archives.  This was changed from Linux to
> FreeBSD a long time ago.  It was done so that people using Netscape,
> et al won't bloat the Linux numbers.

I don't want to rehash an old thread (and please don't hit me too hard if
the comments below have already be talked about), but I completely
disagree. What is more important to us: better working linux emulation or
reporting the "correct" OS type when visting web sites with Netscape?

How can we possibly conclude that just fixing uname(1) will do it? Who
says that there isn't a binary installation for some linux software that
doesn't use the uname(1) command and so will possibly break because we
report FreeBSD as the OS type?

I really have to support Marcel here.

Blaz Zupan, blaz@amis.net, http://www.herbie.amis.net
Medinet d.o.o., Linhartova 21, 2000 Maribor, Slovenia




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