On 03/01/2010 04:45, James McPherson wrote: > 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 > I see, thanks for clarification. So why didn't kernel name change from SunOS to Solaris when Sun rebranded the operating system?
Hillel.
