English spelling? Yes! (was: Re: Shmem filesystem? DevFS? Why.)

From: Dominik Kubla (dominik.kubla@uni-mainz.de)
Date: Wed Apr 05 2000 - 01:08:00 EST


On Tue, Apr 04, 2000 at 10:09:17PM -0400, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:

> P.S. Can we at least *please* chance all occurances of "disc" to "disk"
> in the publically visible devfs namespace? The kernel uses American
> english everywhere else, and having a mixture of British and American
> english is just going to cause massive confusion.

Ah now, come on Ted!

You should know as well as anybody that Linux has always favoured the
English spelling over the American. It is "colour console" after all...

Dominik

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