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Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2003 12:59:24 -0700
From: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net>
To: Josef Karthauser <joe@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: Problems with vmware-3.2
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On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 08:50:38PM +0100, Josef Karthauser wrote:
> > 
> > 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
> > 
> 
> Ahha, that appears to work:
>     sysctl compat.linux.osrelease=2.4.18
> 
> I've since found that I was nailing the values in /etc/sysctl.conf,
>     #compat.linux.osname=FreeBSD
>     #compat.linux.osrelease=5.0-current
> so that opera reported the correct things.

This was actually the primary reason for having osname and osrelease
in the first place: people wanted their Linux browser to report
FreeBSD :-)

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.
 
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 Marcel Moolenaar	  USPA: A-39004		 marcel@xcllnt.net