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Linus Torvalds Expresses His Hatred For Case-Insensitive File-Systems (www.phoronix.com)
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[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 weeks ago

To be precise, longer names ending with ~1 are a backwards compatible fix for DOS programs introduced after Windows started supporting longer filenames.