On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 13:06, Jim Crumley <crumley at fields.space.umn.edu>wrote: > > How is this an insult on your religion? > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slackware > > > > The name "Slackware" stems from the fact that the distribution started as > a > > private side project with no intended commitment. To prevent it from > being > > taken too seriously at first, Volkerding gave it a humorous name, which > > stuck even after Slackware became a serious project. > > > It looks to me like he might be referring to this: > Slackware's name is a reference to the concept of "slack" in > the Church of the SubGenius, a largely Internet-based satirical > pseudoreligion that had a cult following in the 1980s-90s. Within > the Church, along with the common meaning of latitude, slack also > implies personal space and freedom, independence, and the > capacity for original thought. The developers of the Slackware > operating system used the term to suggest that the project was, > at least at its inception, a not-quite-serious spin-off project. > > http://searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com/definition/Slackware > > I have no idea as to whether that is true or not, but it still > seems pretty innocuous to me. It seems about as offensive as > Spaghetti Linux would be. > I've always associated "Slack" with lazy, loose, etc. "Slacking off" or "take up slack in your fishing line" and as such is why I considered Slackware more of a side project than anything. So, in other words, he has a problem with something because it represents/means personal independence, thought and space? Perhaps we should keep him from finding out about http://www.landoverbaptist.org -- -Shawn -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20110119/55eda481/attachment.htm