Why does it say "Linux" instead of "Ubuntu"

caksin · 04-01-2010, 01:37 PM

Hi,
I did search if such a question existed but could not find any relevant results and I could not decide where to post, so sorry if this is not the place, but it does seem to be newbie question;

Why does it say "Linux" on my posts whereas I have Karmic Koala - 32 bit on the left over there?

pljvaldez · 04-01-2010, 01:42 PM

Probably because your browser doesn't have Ubuntu in the User Agent string.

repo · 04-01-2010, 01:43 PM

You need to set the distribution in firefox, or the browser you are using.
There is a thread at LQ concerning this problem.
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...-posts-749091/

JimBrewster · 04-01-2010, 01:46 PM

What browser are you using?

You might want to check out this thread

caksin · 04-01-2010, 01:49 PM

I posted the first one using chrome, now this one is from ff. Let's see how it goes.
Edit: Lol it shows nothing from ff, now I checked both ff and chrome settings - could not find where to set the distro, I guess that was not the place to look.
I checked the links you guys gave but did not see anything about any configuration. Can you tell me where it is or how to do it?

smeezekitty · 04-01-2010, 02:50 PM

^^ Refresh the page.

repo · 04-01-2010, 02:54 PM

Quote:

checked the links you guys gave but did not see anything about any configuration. Can you tell me where it is or how to do it?

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ubuntu-799421/

caksin · 04-01-2010, 02:57 PM

Oops - nice one

. So ff can do it but not chrome, for now, for me.

pljvaldez · 04-01-2010, 04:26 PM

http://lifehacker.com/5050497/change...r-agent-string

repo · 04-01-2010, 05:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pljvaldez

http://lifehacker.com/5050497/change...r-agent-string

Isn't this for windows?

pljvaldez · 04-01-2010, 05:44 PM

Sorry, maybe. I guess I didn't read it very closely... I'll have to check when I get home.

EDIT: This link claims you can start it from the command line with a user agent string.

w1k0 · 04-01-2010, 06:50 PM

Run google-chrome and type address:

Code:

about:

In result apart of other things you see User Agent string:

Code:

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US) AppleWebKit/533.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/5.0.342.1 Safari/533.2

Default string doesn’t include information about your distribution so your system is recognized as Linux.

w1k0 · 04-01-2010, 06:51 PM

Now run google-chrome with such command:

Code:

google-chrome --user-agent="Mozilla/5.0 Slackware/13.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US) AppleWebKit/533.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/5.0.342.1 Safari/533.2"

Now User Agent string includes information about your distribution (Slackware 13.0 in the example above).

To make life easier you’d prepare alias to start google-chrome:

Code:

alias chrome='google-chrome --user-agent="Mozilla/5.0 Slackware/13.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US) AppleWebKit/533.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/5.0.342.1 Safari/533.2"'

caksin · 04-02-2010, 02:16 AM

Hm, thnx guys. This post is from chrome run through the command given. I wrote "Ubuntu/9.10", let's see.
Again, Thank you all.
Cheers

Edit: Roxx

repo · 04-02-2010, 02:18 AM

indeed