Hello, Under Ubuntu 11.04 , you can set the default login on the login screen to ubuntu classic. This will disable unity for that user. In regards to the download page, I really do not see a way to determine the Distro via the browser unless the code accesses the user system. The distro data is normally included in a file under /etc for example under centos the distro info is in /etc/redhat-release and under ubuntu /etc/lsb-release
cat lsb-release DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu DISTRIB_RELEASE=11.10 DISTRIB_CODENAME=oneiric DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 11.10" The browser only shows the core kernel data build which is Linux 1386 or x64 . Same for windows and Apple. Mas On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 10:00 AM, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions <[email protected]> wrote: > > I wonder is there could be some "hint" given on the download page. It it > detects Linux as the OS, then a text could be displayed with the type of > Linux and its known file type need. That would help some people who might > get the choice wrong. I know that would be just a matter of making a list of > the known, or most common, distros of Linux and then matching up whether it > uses DEBs or RPMs for the download. That should be easy to make the "case > statement" in Javascript, and easy to add more distros as they come to the > forefront of the popular Linux versions. > > As I stated somewhere, Mint is gathering a lot of users [according to an > article] who want Debian/Ubuntu based OS, but do not want to deal with Unity. > I just tried Unity yesterday and I hate it. When I end up taking my Ubuntu > 10.xx desktop to a newer Ubuntu-based OS, I will have to go to Mint if I want > to avoid Unity. I could not find a place to default that Ubuntu 11.10 system > to GNOME that 11.04 defaulted to when it when to from 10.10 to 11.04 on the > upgrade. The 11.04 to 11.10 decided that it had the resources that 11.04 > stated my system did not have, and defaulted to Unity. Since this was a > clean install, with no data on the computer, I went to Mint. Actually I used > Mint's OEM install to see how it was used to set up a system by a company > before it was shipped to the user for them to setup their own account info. > > On 11/11/2011 09:08 AM, Christian Lohmaier wrote: >> >> On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 2:36 PM, webmaster for Kracked Press >> Productions<[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> On 11/11/2011 06:52 AM, Christian Lohmaier wrote: >>>> >>>> [...] >>>> You can check on this page what the values your browser reports are: >>>> http://jsfiddle.net/ZZRSk/embedded/result/ >>>> >>>> If you think that any info can be used to derive "ah, this is a >>>> deb-user", then please share the results :-) >>> >>> [...] >>> It just was when I went to that page with OSs that were Ubuntu >>> 11.xx based. >>> >>> I wonder if Firefox 4.x and up could be the issue? I use 3.x.x with Ubuntu >>> 10.xx and the same for Windows. I do not like the new look for FF and I >>> avoid it if possible. Ubuntu/Mint 11.xx used FF 4.x.x as its default. >> >> Once again: The info is queried using javascript, and what you get of >> course depends on the browser, as the browser is who gives the reply. >> And the distribution can be obtained/guessed from the userAgent string >> at best. But if it is a vanilla, unmodified string, you cannot have >> any informatin to judge, and hence you need to choose a default. >> >>> Could you add to the list Linux Mint as a detected value for DEBs? >> >> Does the information shown on the jsfiddle page allow to derive that >> it is linux Mint that is being used? >> >>> Also, I ran that browser detail link and it only showed that the OS was >>> Linux, not Ubuntu, Mint, DEB or RPM based. >> >> So - how would you determine that it is linux mint? If you know a way, share >> it. >> Once it is know that mint is used, the debs can be chosen. >> >> But the problem is that you cannot tell whether the user is running >> mint, fedora, debian, mandriva, mageia, .... unless there is a hint in >> the useragent string. And historically only debian and ubuntu who >> copied many things from debian did have a modified useragent string. >> >> Again: If you know a way to derive information about the >> distro/deb/rpm by means of javascript, then please share it and it >> will be added. >> >> ciao >> Christian >> > > > -- > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/website/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted > -- -- Masekela Walls Web Security Analyst | Senior Server Administrator Powserve.com / Gemini ISP Networks -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/website/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
