On 3/13/11 5:18 PM, Chris Smart wrote: > On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 11:07 AM, James McKenzie<jjmckenzie51@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Yum (which was based off of the Yellow Dog Unix system for Macs) was > Really? I thought it was Yellow Dog Linux for Power architecture > (which Macs were at the time). > You are correct here. The target for Yellow Dog was the M68K chipsets that were popular and replaced with the G3/G4/G5 chipsets. I don't know of many commercially viable M68K systems that were not built by Apple and had the Mac moniker on them. >> built on a case sensitive file system. Thus, to this day, it remains >> case sensitive. You can do things like >> new_file_name = lower(file with mixed and upper case) >> mv 'file with mixed and upper case' $new_file_name >> yum $new_file_name >> > In addition, at the core of ASCII and UTF-8 A != a. I'm sure it's > easier to be case sensitive, else you need additional overhead. > True, and this applies mostly to Western languages, with maybe Viet as an exception. The 'real' fun starts when you have a file in German with the double s character or an umlatted a, o or u and a file with the same but not containing the special characters or their Anglicized equivalents. James McKenzie > -c -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
