Re: [PATCH 0/3] Advertise OS version

> On Wed, Jun 19, 2024 at 3:50 PM Dragan Simic <dsimic@manjaro.org> 
> wrote:
> 
>> > I don't mind if this is present but disabled by default, but then I
>> > guess it is not really serving much of a purpose, as hardly anybody
>> > would enable it. Which makes collecting large-scale statistics by
>> > hosting providers pretty much useless (and I don't think it is all that
>> > useful for debugging individual cases).
>> 
>> I agree that it should actually be disabled by default, for privacy
>> and security reasons, but that would actually defeat its purpose, so
>> I'm not really sure should it be merged.
> 
> One possibility is to send just the `sysname`, described as 'Operating
> system name (e.g., "Linux")', field of the struct utsname filled out
> by uname(2) by default.
> 
> It should be the same as what `uname -s` prints, so "Linux" for a
> Linux machine, and might be acceptable regarding privacy concerns.
> 
> And then there might be a knob to deactivate it completely or to make
> it more verbose (which might be useful for example in a corporate
> context).