Re: Progress on a "spiritual" derivation of GoboLinux

On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 7:30 PM, Liam Proven <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 4 May 2013 12:36, Sepero <[email protected]> wrote:
> OK, true, but is this a common issue? Can one not just create
> arbitrary ad-hoc names and use them?
>
>> The second being capitalized folder/file names. The only reason I can figure
>> that this was ever considered to be a good idea was because the designer was
>> using zsh. Big fail. Bash is the industry standard, and it does not auto
>> capitalize. Don't get me wrong, I think zshell is great, but many of us just
>> want the standard. Basing a system around something that is not standard is
>> begging for failure. Others may think I'm wrong and that's ok.
>
> I think that's just for readability. OS X does it. MoonOS, as I've
> just discovered, does it. Windows, of course, does it. RISC OS and
> things do it.

Nope. Please read the following article to understand many of the
design decisions behind GoboLinux:

   http://www.gobolinux.org/index.php?page=doc/articles/clueless

Required reading for anyone trying to create something "Goblo-like" :-)

LMB