> Seeing that it sometimes breaks commercial applications, and sometimes we want
> ourselves being advertized:
> 
> Why don't we make it a sysctl hierarchy:
> 
> kern.emul.uname.linux = 0 (for saying NetBSD under Linux emulation)
> kern.emul.uname.ultrix = 1 (for saying Ultrix under Ultrix emulation)
> 
> and leave the decision to the system administrator?

This is silly.   The only reason we want to report NetBSD instead of
Linux/Ultrix/whatever is for web browsers.   Since Netscrape will be
coming out as "free" software shortly, why worry about it?

			       _MelloN_