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Subject: Re: own OS-Name
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Markus Mueller <casparos@yahoo.de> writes:
> I will create my own *BSD OS based on FreeBSD.
> How can I change the Name of this OS ?
> I mean, that in Logfiles, for example, of servers, which I connect by
> sufing in the web and in application which locate the OS instead
> "FREEBSD" an another OS-Name "MyOS-Name" will be displayed.

You don't want to do that.  It will cause you no end of pain with
third-party software that relies on uname -s and / or compiler macros
(__FreeBSD__) to turn specific features on or off.  You will have to
patch pretty much every autoconf script in existence.

DES
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