So, for example, if you open a new tab, type "about:config" (minus the quotes, of course), search for useragent, and then create a new string (right click), naming it "general.useragent.override" and then pasting:

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:63.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/63.0

into the window that pops up, and then adding "Debian Linux" (for example) to the end of that, so it reads:

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:63.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/63.0 Debian Linux

you SHOULD see the Debian logo next to subsequent posts.

Ah, here's the thread I mentioned earlier.

And:
https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...ne-4175517440/
https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...r-nick-934873/

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That's normal, I get that, too. It takes a bit to "catch up," so to speak.

The funny thing about this, of course, is that you can put whatever you want here, regardless of what OS you are ACTUALLY using, and it will display that OS icon. So you can effectively fool everyone into thinking you're some "1337" Arch hacker (or whatever) when in fact you are posting from WinXP (or whatever). So there you go. How do you know I'm actually posting from a Gentoo system? You don't! (I am, but that's beside the point.)

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I played about with user agent strings in "a past life" and my favourite was "Hey, Steve!".

I was a little dissapointed when told that blackberry OS would not get its own LQ icon but, sadly, had to ditch the OS anyhow.

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That's funny. Does it show that as text, or some kind of icon?

Oh, sorry, I meant I had my string set to that II the guy monitoring which OSs were used to connect to the company VPN was called Steve.

Did Steve make the VPN redirect you to a captive portal that said "Hey 273"? :-D

That would have been fun but, sadly, no. He was always very helpful when I had questions though.

There are plugins for various browsers that make customizing the user agent easy. I use one called "Custom UserAgent String" with Firefox.

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OK, I tried J W Jones's suggestion putting "Linux From Scratch" as the distro name, because that's what I'm currently using. Let's see what LQ makes of that.

Still generic Linux!

Yeah, I'm pretty sure there's no icon for either LFS or Crux, sadly.

While we try to support as many distros as we can, it's not possible to support each and every one. If there are distros you think are popular enough to have their own icon but are missing, let us know and we'll evaluate (linking to an icon in the correct format certainly helps).

--jeremy

Do antiX and MX Linux have their own icons? As I've never seen any for them. So possibly those two if they don't have their own icons, and maybe, in might make sense to look at the other distro's here that have their own sub-forums?

While I would throw you a link to a suitable icon and forgive me for being an idiot; but I'm not exactly sure which format you're after, or what size? Given PNG images seem to be used quite a bit in Linux, is that the format you're after?

And also forgive me for being a nosy parker;

But while obversely it would be in the forum software to look for and use the User Agent string (if you know what I mean), but I imagine there is some kind of list with all the recognized User Agent strings that LQ has an icon for, that would obversely point to the relevant icon for the given distro; is that "list" in a database, script/file, or somewhere else? In other words: where does the forum software get the mapping for the User Agent string to the relevant icon from?

The reason I ask is because I'm currently trying to better my knowledge of C, to see if I get any enjoyment out of it or not.

The images that I've clicked on appear to show that they are gifs (not necessarily transparent) with small sizes, e.g. (in pixels) 24x28, 15x18, 18x18. If you do the same, you should get an idea as to what's required.

Edit: Info now superseded by Jeremy's response later in this thread.

Actually I'm not sure that Crux has an icon. The Crux site homepage shows a very simplified and cartoonish version of Tux, but I don't recall seeing this in any other context. LFS uses the attached image, a cross between a penguin's head and a jigsaw piece.

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