On Sat, Jan 11, 2003, Amir Tal wrote about "kazza lite and wine":
> $ uname -a
> Linux tal 2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Son Apr 14 09:53:28 CEST 2002 i686 unknown unknown
> GNU/Linux
Sorry for completely ignoring your question, but has anybody noticed the
appearance of the string "GNU/Linux" in the output of the latest releases
of GNU's "uname"? (I'm trying the following on my Redhat 8.0 machine)
Uname -s returns just "Linux", as it always did,
$ uname -s
Linux
By the phrase "system name" that was used to describe the "-s" option, has
been replaced in the uname(1) manual by "kernel name". Then then went ahead
and invented a new "-o" option (operating system name):
$ uname -o
GNU/Linux
This "-o" option did not exist in any other version of uname, as far as I
know (I think it was added in GNU sh-utils 2.0.12).
In fact, I've been, for many years, using Solaris in which everything had
been replaced by the GNU alternatives (in fact, for the one exception of
glibc, it has exactly the same GNU stuff that most Linux distributions use).
On this machine, uname -s (using GNU's uname, of course) always returned
"SunOS". And they never thought about complaining "why do you call it SunOS,
you should call it GNU/SunOS"...
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