How To Change FreeBSD Uname Information

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This might be useful to others creating customised respins or trying run old scripts with compatibility hacks.

FreeBSD makes changing the uname information very easy, you can try it straight from the shell and then run uname -a to check:

export UNAME_s=CleanForkHPC
export UNAME_r=1.0.0a

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