Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 18:06:18 -0700 From: Nate Williams <nate@sri.MT.net> To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Linux emulation vs. native (was Re: Quake's out ...) Message-ID: <199602290106.SAA09851@rocky.sri.MT.net> In-Reply-To: <199602290003.RAA09335@phaeton.artisoft.com> References: <Pine.AUX.3.91.960228142023.29617A-100000@covina.lightside.com> <199602290003.RAA09335@phaeton.artisoft.com>
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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
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