Why is Linux the only OS in version identifier list that has a lowercase name?

[Ali Çehreli via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On 04/10/2016 03:03 PM, Zekereth wrote:
> So I was just testing some code and couldn't figure out why it wasn't
> working. My version block looked like this:
>
> version(Linux)
> {
> ...
> }
>
> Looking at the list(unless I'm missing something) Linux is the only OS
> that is lowercase. I'm guessing most people use Posix instead and never
> encounter this problem.
>
> Regard,
> Zekereth

As a workaround, you can set version to Linux yourself:

version (linux) {
     version = Linux;
}

void main() {
     version (Linux) {
         import std.stdio;
         writeln("Linux worked!");
     }
}