<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 13:06, Jim Crumley <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:crumley@fields.space.umn.edu">crumley@fields.space.umn.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">> How is this an insult on your religion?<br>
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> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slackware" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slackware</a><br>
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> The name "Slackware" stems from the fact that the distribution started as a<br>
> private side project with no intended commitment. To prevent it from being<br>
> taken too seriously at first, Volkerding gave it a humorous name, which<br>
> stuck even after Slackware became a serious project.<br>
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</div>It looks to me like he might be referring to this:<br>
Slackware's name is a reference to the concept of "slack" in<br>
the Church of the SubGenius, a largely Internet-based satirical<br>
pseudoreligion that had a cult following in the 1980s-90s. Within<br>
the Church, along with the common meaning of latitude, slack also<br>
implies personal space and freedom, independence, and the<br>
capacity for original thought. The developers of the Slackware<br>
operating system used the term to suggest that the project was,<br>
at least at its inception, a not-quite-serious spin-off project.<br>
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<a href="http://searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com/definition/Slackware" target="_blank">http://searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com/definition/Slackware</a><br>
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I have no idea as to whether that is true or not, but it still<br>
seems pretty innocuous to me. It seems about as offensive as<br>
Spaghetti Linux would be.<br></blockquote></div><br><br>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.<br>
<br>So, in other words, he has a problem with something because it represents/means personal independence, thought and space? <br><br><br>Perhaps we should keep him from finding out about <a href="http://www.landoverbaptist.org">http://www.landoverbaptist.org</a><br>
<br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>-Shawn<br>