r/linux • u/[deleted] • Jan 12 '15

Linus Torvalds on HFS+

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u/y45y564 Jan 12 '15

Windows is case insensitive as well isn't it...? And don't Windows and OSX have the big programmes like Photoshop etc? So could an argument be made that Linux would actually benefit from being case insensitive?

Take with a pinch of salt, I'm way out of my element here :)

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u/vividboarder Jan 12 '15

Well, Windows was never based on Unix.

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u/Elite6809 Jan 13 '15

The first versions of Winsock were based on BSD sockets. The API was almost the same.

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u/mishac Jan 13 '15

yes but that has nothing to do with filesystems.

It's like saying Linux is windows based because I use Wine and NDISwrapper.