[Bug 709125] Re: User agent doesn't include Ubuntu in it so apt.ubuntu.com doesn't work

[Matthew Paul Thomas]

We can't reasonably assume that every Linux user is using Ubuntu.
Market-share-wise, that would be roughly equivalent to assuming that
every browser user is using Internet Explorer. :-)

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=572650 describes a worthy
goal, but nothing about that requires treating Ubuntu *differently* from
other OSes. As long as it is possible to distinguish Windows and Mac OS
X users by the UA string, it should be possible to distinguish Ubuntu
users too.

Even if naming the kernel in the UA string is important (I don't know
why, but maybe it is), Firefox should treat Ubuntu exactly the same as
it treats Android and Maemo, which also use Linux as their kernel: that
is, have "(Ubuntu; Linux;...)" just like it has "(Android; Linux;...)"
and "(Maemo; Linux;...)".

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Title:
  User agent doesn't include Ubuntu in it so apt.ubuntu.com doesn't work