On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 14:39, Jim Cheetham wrote: > It does *not* show that your favourite distribution thinks that it > itself is "GNU/Linux", only that it has chosen to use the GNU project > 'uname' command. But it does show that your favourite distribution chose not to change it, which is just as significant. Debian, for example, would change it in a flash if they disagreed. Alternatively, your distribution could have installed the BSD version of uname, but chose not to.
The info page on uname states the difference between the -o and -s options are for systems where the kernel-name is different from the OS-name, such as GNU/Linux, and Solaris/SunOS. (Yes, "uname -o" on a Sun box does return "SunOS".) -- Michael JasonSmith http://www.ldots.org/
