From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 1 01:16:32 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D02D91065670 for ; Fri, 1 Aug 2008 01:16:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@meijome.net) Received: from sigma.octantis.com.au (ns2.octantis.com.au [207.44.189.124]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BC5A8FC1D for ; Fri, 1 Aug 2008 01:16:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@meijome.net) Received: (qmail 6976 invoked from network); 31 Jul 2008 20:16:34 -0500 Received: from 203-166-248-146.dyn.iinet.net.au (HELO ayiin) (203.166.248.146) by sigma.octantis.com.au with (DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 31 Jul 2008 20:16:34 -0500 Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 11:16:28 +1000 From: Norberto Meijome To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.5.0 (GTK+ 2.12.11; i386-portbld-freebsd7.0) Face: 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 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: own OS-Name X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2008 01:16:32 -0000 On Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:20:49 +0300 Giorgos Keramidas 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 _________________________ {Beto|Norberto|Numard} Meijome Two things have come out of Berkeley, Unix and LSD. It is uncertain which caused the other. I speak for myself, not my employer. Contents may be hot. Slippery when wet. Reading disclaimers makes you go blind. Writing them is worse. You have been Warned.