Promote Linux in Windoze

[Guest anon]

Originally posted by theYinYeti ( old board )

We all know how badly Linux need to be recognized as a valid alternative to Windows.

The problem is that most surveys for evaluating the market part of each OS is based on the statistics provided by web sites.

If that were not bad enough, many of us need to fake IE inside Linux (!) to have access to some web sites, thus making it appear we use Windows when in fact we use Linux.

 

I've just had an idea. We'll use this "faking" possibility the other way around! How? Simple:

 

On every Windows computer you use, be it at home, or at work (as I do right now), use Mozilla 1.0 as the main browser, then download the Useragent Toolbar, http://uabar.mozdev.org/ for Mozilla, and set it permanently to "Mozilla 1.0.0+ Linux", which translates into "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.0+) Gecko/20020518".

 

That way, all your surfing inside Windows will appear to be made from Linux.

 

I've just tested it at http://www.cnil.fr/traces/demonst/config.htm and here's what I'm said:

Quote:

Nous pouvons voir que votre ordinateur utilise : Linux

comme système d'exploitation.

Votre navigateur a comme nom de code : Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.0+) Gecko/20020518

 

In fact, I use Windows 2000.

 

Yves.

[ramfree17]

tYY:

 

the link documents states

I've just added a test widget for phoenix which adds the bar as a customizable bit of Phoenix. This is so much more pleasant to have installed than uabar on Mozilla!. Download it into Phoenix here.

. i clicked it nonetheless but how do i use it? i cant even find the box listing the user-agent string being used by mozilla. any direction is appreciated. i am using mozilla 1.2.1 in a win2k machine.

 

ciao!