From owner-freebsd-current Fri Mar 17 18:57:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from holly.calldei.com (adsl-208-191-146-189.dsl.hstntx.swbell.net [208.191.146.189]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4038B37B7A1; Fri, 17 Mar 2000 18:57:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chris@holly.calldei.com) Received: (from chris@localhost) by holly.calldei.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA77258; Fri, 17 Mar 2000 20:56:13 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from chris) Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 20:56:12 -0600 From: Chris Costello To: Donn Miller Cc: Kris Kennaway , tsikora@powerusersbbs.com, "current@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: RealPlayer 7 Message-ID: <20000317205612.H24374@holly.calldei.com> Reply-To: chris@calldei.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Mutt/0.96.4i In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Friday, March 17, 2000, Donn Miller wrote: > I've noticed that the Linux version reports the OS as "Linux 2.0.36" or > something like that. Is there anything special that will make the Linux > version of Netscape report the OS correctly? Maybe it should be doing > `uname -srm` or something like that. Please see the compat.linux sysctls for how to do this yourself. You could have something like this if you want to show off FreeBSD to your Linux programs: compat.linux.osname: FreeBSD compat.linux.osrelease: 3.4-STABLE compat.linux.oss_version: 198144 -- |Chris Costello |If at first you don't succeed, call it version 1.0 `-------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message