On 2 Sep 1997 02:12:45 +0200 
 tron@lyssa.owl.de (Matthias Scheler) wrote:

 > the emulation of Linux's uname syscall returns the native operating
 > system "NetBSD". That leads to problems with e.g. installation scripts
 > which check the operating system like StarOffice's one.
 > 
 > Wouldn't it be wiser to return "Linux" hard coded?

...hmm, except you'd like the people who read their WWW server logs to
see "NetBSD" instead, when you use a Linux Netscape binary.

I seem to recall it was pretty simple to modify the installation script.

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