On 3/13/11 5:18 PM, Chris Smart wrote:
On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 11:07 AM, James
McKenzie<jjmckenzie51(a)gmail.com> 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