[SOLVED] What do I have to put in my agent string for this site to recognise me as a Slackware user?

emmet · 10-24-2021, 02:27 AM

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Originally Posted by enigma9o7

I'm curious, is there a list of other strings that trigger LQ distro logos? I never really paid attention til I read this thread, now I'm noticing the generic pengiun, ubuntu, and slackware, and I get a questionmark I guess; wondering if there's others that might work...
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Bodhi Linux i686; rv:93.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/93.0

I just poked around a bit to see if there was such a list in the site FAQ or elsewhere. I came up empty. In this thread, I saw logos for:

suse
macos
unknown
freebsd
windows_10
ubuntu

AlienBob's post (second post in the thread) shows nothing at all, not even 'unknown', probably because he's running an AlienOS, perhaps on an Alienware rig.

In the Bohdi forum, I scanned a few threads and did not see any Bohdi logos. There were a lot of Ubuntu logos in there though.

Elswhere, I saw:

windows_7
windows_8
android
mageia
arch
fedora
gentoo

In a thread entitled "Slackware vs. Debian" in the Debian forum, many of the posters had question marks as their distro logo, indicating a lot of indecision. I may be reading into that.

I did not spot any Debian logos in the Debian forum. Not a lot of traffic in the Debian forum. I suspect Debian users that congregate do so elsewhere. Nor did I see any Mint logos in the Mint forum. Lots of Windows 10 logos though. That was not meant to be snarky, not as far as you can tell. No Manjaro logos in the Manjaro forum either that I saw.

So, my guess is the on-site logo inventory is incomplete. But were someone to fashion a logo for a distro that lacked one and presented it to the site administrator, it's quite possible that such an offering would be accepted and put to good use, I am thinking.

Hannes Worst · 10-24-2021, 05:21 AM

I previously had also a NetBSD logo.

vtel57 · 10-24-2021, 10:31 AM

> In a thread entitled "Slackware vs. Debian" in the Debian forum, many of the posters had question marks as their distro logo, indicating a lot of indecision. I may be reading into that.

HAHAHA! My first LOL for the day. Thanks.

igadoter · 10-24-2021, 11:32 AM

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Originally Posted by vtel57

> In a thread entitled "Slackware vs. Debian" in the Debian forum, many of the posters had question marks as their distro logo, indicating a lot of indecision. I may be reading into that.

HAHAHA! My first LOL for the day. Thanks.

The thread you mentioned started in 2008. Only the old posts have question marks.

vtel57 · 10-24-2021, 03:31 PM

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Originally Posted by igadoter

The thread you mentioned started in 2008. Only the old posts have question marks.

Not me. I was quoting @emmet above #121.

marav · 11-04-2021, 06:29 PM

marav · 11-08-2021, 08:22 AM

Gordie · 11-08-2021, 09:42 AM

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Originally Posted by marav

-_-

Maybe is Mystery Linux

_peter · 11-09-2021, 01:29 PM

flipping the bits

Gordie · 11-17-2021, 12:01 PM

Hmm, upgraded my browser and lost the setting.
Made changes and checking now to see if it worked.

Didn't work

vtel57 · 11-17-2021, 01:31 PM

If you're supposed to be showing Slackware, @Gordie, you're correct... it's not working.

Franklin · 11-17-2021, 04:14 PM

Just testing
[sigh]

Then again ...

Clearly not a task for the dyslexic.

marav · 11-17-2021, 04:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Gordie

Hmm, upgraded my browser and lost the setting.
Made changes and checking now to see if it worked.

Didn't work

https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...ml#post6294939

elcore · 11-17-2021, 04:42 PM

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Originally Posted by marav

https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...ml#post6294939

Your method (about:config) writes the following to prefs.js

Code:

user_pref("general.useragent.override", "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Slackware Linux x86_64; rv:90.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/90.0");

It was probably mentioned in this thread before, but it's possible that browser upgrade could remove it from prefs.js but if you had written this line in user.js then it would persist.

Gordie · 11-17-2021, 04:45 PM

I use Google-Chrome for my browser. Just followed some links on DDG that maybe showed me what to do. Having SWISS CHEESE for a memory doesn't help