in reply to Naming of a module reading /proc

The CPAN mantainers don't like module names that consist of lowercase letters for the simple reason that they may clash with reserved words (pragmas in particular) at some future date.

use strict;

Is the oft cited example.

Cagetory 40 - Operating System Interfaces already has the precedent that OS specific modules start with a namespace appropraite for the OS - in this case Linux. I'd suggest going with that.