On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 5:56 PM, Hillel Lubman <shtetldik at gmail.com> wrote:
> Why does Firefox currently uses "SunOS" as part of user agent on OpenSolaris
> (as well as on Solaris 10)? Would it make more sense to use "Solaris" or even
> better "OpenSolaris" to distinguish the two?
firefox and a bunch of other software uses the output from
the uname command to distinguish between OSen:
$ uname -a
SunOS blinder 5.11 snv_130 i86pc i386 i86pc
$ uname -s
SunOS
$ uname -r
5.11
$ uname -v
snv_130
This is a method which is pretty reliable across unix- and
unix-like operating systems.
James
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