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Linus Torvalds Expresses His Hatred For Case-Insensitive File-Systems (www.phoronix.com)

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[–] Jessica@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 2 days ago

Hey I have one of these case sensitive Mac OS X stories as well!

I gave it a try one time, and I found out the hard way some developers don't test everything in a case sensitive environment. I don't remember what specifically went wrong, but Adium, The instant messaging client, blew up because it couldn't find certain files on the local hard drive.