On 01/ 2/11 05:58 AM, Gaetan Nadon wrote:
> Using *Linux* rather than Linux is misleading to the user as it
> implies there are a large number of possibilities.
> 
> In addition, FreeBSD | NetBSD | OpenBSD is more informative than *BSD*
> which is not used in config.guess.

But does not include the occassional new variant of BSD that comes up,
like DragonflyBSD, or the hybrids, like GNU/kFreeBSD.   (Not that I'm
sure off hand what the $HOST_OS for either of those look like.)

-- 
        -Alan Coopersmith-        [email protected]
         Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System

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