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From: Nate Williams <nate@sri.MT.net>
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Terry Lambert writes:
> 
> One could argue that it's better for Browsers that run on FreeBSD
> to report "FreeBSD" rather than "Linux" to the web sites it runs against.

Umm, they do.  Netscape (by far the most popular) uses uname to
determine the system type.  I found this out from a site that proceeded
to inform me that it didn't find a match for 'insert uname output' on
it's site.  I thought it was pretty clever to auto search for software
matching the OS you are running.


Nate