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
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