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Bug#271396: Kernel help typo



On Tue, 14 Sep 2004, Matthew Wilcox wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 11:10:11PM +0200, maks attems wrote:
> >  	  Use the CPUFreq governor 'userspace' as default. This allows
> >  	  you to set the CPU frequency manually or when an userspace 
> > -	  programm shall be able to set the CPU dynamically without having
> > +	  programme shall be able to set the CPU dynamically without having
> >  	  to enable the userspace governor manually.
> 
> In British English, "programme" refers to a television
> schedule, "program" refers to something a computer runs, see:
> http://www.chambersharrap.co.uk/chambers/chref/chref.py/main?query=programme&title=21st
> 
> Americans use "program" for everything, so using programme here is wrong
> for everyone ;-)
 
/me laughing

thanks for the explanation, my french mother tongue probably
agreed to aboves change :-)

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maks
kernel janitor  	http://janitor.kernelnewbies.org/




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