how to download

[Robert Heller]

At Wed, 14 Mar 2018 17:51:28 -0400 Stan Brown <the_stan_brown at fastmail.fm> wrote:

> 
> On 2018-03-14 17:32, Colin Law wrote:
> > When I go to https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnucash/files/ the green
> > button says on it "Download latest version gnucash-2.6.29-tar.bz2(13.6MB)".
> > But I am using LInux. Does it change dependent on which OS one is using?
> 
> Apparently it does. I see "Download Latest Version /
> gnucash-2.6.19-setup.exe", which certainly _sounds_ like a Windows
> installer. If memory serves, that's the one I installed on this laptop
> last month.
> 
> I have JavaScript turned off, so apparently either Windows is the
> default, or it can tell my OS without using JavaScript.

JavaScript is not needed to tell what your O/S is.  It is in the User Agent 
header sent by your browser.

> 
> I don't know why the OP is so down on Sourceforge. They tarnished their
> reputation by bundling crapware in the installers, last year or the year
> before, but they took note when they were blasted by a bunch of Web
> sites and cleaned up their act.
> 

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