Having never heard of SubGenius, I greatly appreciate your indignation at the Slackware linux name to the point that you decided to comment on it on here so I can learn about it. Oh the joys... this sounds as cool as being a pastafarian following the noodly teachings of the FSM. I wonder if Pastafarianism, Church of the SubGenius, and Fictionology can coexist in one. Which religion should I choose??? As cited in the referenced Wikipedia article, this slashdot interview indicates it was SubGenius inspired. http://slashdot.org/interviews/00/03/17/1120205.shtml Of course anyone should be free to choose their own distro using whatever reasoning they decide is appropriate. I personally find the name of a product to be extremely far down the list of factors when deciding what products to buy or use. I would imagine there is a great deal of code in every distro that is written by people who have some opinions that are in extreme opposition to your own yet I doubt you'd decide to stop using their awesome programs for that reason alone (assuming hypothetical code was awesome). Either way, thanks again for pseudo controversy so I could learn of SubGenius. Maybe I will help spread their good works now. -----Original Message----- From: Drmgiver <drmgiver at gmail.com> Reply-to: TCLUG Mailing List <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> To: TCLUG Mailing List <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> Subject: Re: [tclug-list] Window Maker distro Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 13:07:17 -0600 Mailer: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101208 Thunderbird/3.1.7 Again: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_the_SubGenius#Slack This is where the name *Slack*ware came from. That is why you will see "Bob" when in reference to Slackware. That is why someone on this very group mentioned "Bob". Again, it is an insult on Christianity. Justin On 01/19/2011 12:59 PM, Yaron wrote: > 1) Saying "Oooh look at the HEATHEN DISTRIBUTION" is trolling. > > 2) I seem to recall the whole "background" for the whole "Slack" thing was > it was supposed to be a side project and they didn't want anyone to > expect too much from it, so they named it "slackware". I don't see how > that is an insult to Chrsitanity, or anyone else for that matter. > > 3) I can't even seem to get Google to dredge up any way that slackware is > offensive to Christians. The closest thing I have found is that, in > fact, someone has made a Christian-oriented distribution BASED ON > SLACKWARE, named "Slack4Christians". > > 4) Just in case you missed point 3 right above, people have used SLACKWARE > as the basis for a Christian-oriented distribution. And they didn't > bother taking the "slack" out of the name. > > 5) You should stop trolling now. > > > > On Wed, 19 Jan 2011, Drmgiver wrote: > >> How is explaining why I won't be using that distro trolling? Do you not >> know the background of the whole "slack" thing? It is an insult on >> Christianity. >> >> Justin >> >> On 01/19/2011 11:25 AM, Yaron wrote: >>> Wow... telling people not to troll and act like adults in one sentance and >>> then trolling and acting like a non-adult in the next! You win! >>> >>> On Wed, 19 Jan 2011, Drmgiver wrote: >>> >>>> Ok seriously, can we get over the troll shit and act like adults? I >>>> have a right to my opinion sorry. The whole "slack" thing insults my >>>> faith. I won't be using that distro or any distro based on it. Get >>>> over it. >>>> >>>> Justin >>>> >>>> On 01/19/2011 09:55 AM, Mr. B-o-B wrote: >>>>> Drmgiver cried from the depths of the abyss... >>>>> >>>>>> Most distros include it in repos to my knowledge. As for Slackware, I >>>>>> know it is just me being me, but I refuse to use it based on how it got >>>>>> it's name. >>>>>> >>>>> That is a shame. I have the same feeling about Ubuntu (which is an >>>>> African word for not smart enough to use Slackware). I have installed >>>>> Ubuntu for my Mom, and a handful of others that are challenged. It's a >>>>> nice n00b distro. Once you grow some teeth, or need to put a server into >>>>> production you might find the hand holding fisher price aspect of Ubuntu >>>>> a turn off. This of course my is just my opinion. >>>>> >>>>> You should give it a try. It's lovely! >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >>>>> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >>>>> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >>>> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >>>> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >>>> >>> -Yaron >>> >>> -- >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >>> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >>> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> >> _______________________________________________ >> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> > > -Yaron > > -- > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota tclug-list at mn-linux.org http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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