On 1/31/07, Mike Miller <mbmiller at taxa.epi.umn.edu> wrote: > Is it possible that Linux machines don't identify as such? I don't know > why a machine would give it's OS to a web site! It seems like a bad idea, > so maybe Linux users avoid it. Web browsers generally identify their OS to sites they browse via the user agent string. see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_agent#Example_user-agent_strings. If you use firefox, you can see what your browser is reporting itself as in the help>about box. I doubt that user-agent spoofing or hiding has much of an impact on statistics. -- jonner