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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Mon, 18 Dec 2006, Lee Forrest wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 06:27:13PM -0800, Lee Forrest wrote:
> > Thanks to John Beck's screen package, I've got screen on
> > BL3 now and can forget about X for a while.
> >
> > Sindi, where can I get that "SW8.1 compiler and libraries" you
> > mentioned in another post, that will compile 2.4 kernels on BL3.
> > It's not in 4.0 or 7.1.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Lee

I don't think I got the above mail, I always answer right away so as not 
to have mails accumulating.


> Sindi,
>
> I finally figured it out. By "SW", you mean "Slackware". Thanks
> for letting me in on the secret.
>
> http://www.acronymfinder.com/af-query.asp?Acronym=SW&Find=find&string=exact
>
> SW       Software
>
> SW       Southwest
>
> SW       Star Wars
>
> SW       Switch
>
> SW       Sweden
>
> SW       Swimming
>
> Sw       Swedish (linguistics)
>
> SW       Shareware
>
> SW       Subway
>
> SW       Station Wagon
>
> SW       Social Worker
>
> SW       Short Wave (see HF)
>
> SW       Salt Water
>
> SW       Sidewinder
>
> SW       Shock Waves (movie)
>
> SW       Sand Wedge (golf)
>
> SW       Surface Warfare
>
> SW       Stormwind (gaming, World of Warcraft)
>
> SW       Shotgun Wedding
>
> SW       Seatwork (education)
>
> SW       So What?
>
> SW       Spyware
>
> SW       Surface Water
>
> SW       Storm Water
>
> SW       Semantic Web
>
> SW       SolidWorks (3D solid modeling CAD software)
> SW       Small World
>
> SW       Sea World
>
> SW       Socialist Worker
>
> SW       Slow Wave
>
> That's the first two pages of returns. Do _you_ see "Slackware"
> there?

I have a book of Russian acronyms which is usually more useful but not 
always.

> "Slackware" _was_, originally, a contraction and abbreviation of
> "slacker's software", so "SW" could be a legitimate abbreviation
> for the distro. But I just searched the last 10,000 posts on the
> usenet newsgroup alt.os.linux.slackware, and it doesn't appear
> _once_ there.
>
> Not everyone here has a background in slackware. If I didn't have
> an old book on slackware I picked up at a garage sale, I'd have
> never have known the above.
>
> And "slackware" has been a single word for about 15 years.

I thought other people were using this acronym, sorry.  At least in this 
group.  I will check google/linux.

> "Debian" is a contraction of "Debbie and Ian". But you wouldn't
> understand what I was saying if I said I was using the "DI3.0
> compiler", would you? No. You'd think I was using a compiler
> you'd never heard of. And you might, like I did with the mythical
> "SW8.1 compiler", spend a good deal of time on google trying to
> find it.

Deb?

> So I'd tell you I was using gcc-2.95. I _know_ that you don't
> have a background in debian and no one uses that acronym
> anyway. If it was relevant, I'd tell you that it was found in
> debian 3.0.
>
> This is a technical computer forum, and it is difficult enough to
> keep track of all the _thousands_ of acronyms that already exisst
> without people making them up on a whim. Particularly when the
> "made up" acronym has already been used for so many other things
> and leads one to believe that two words are involved rather than
> one. In-other-words, a bad acronym.
>
> It's one thing to assume that everyone is going to understand
> some bad acronym you've made up, and furthermore, that
> you are referring to a compiler found in a specific version of
> a linux distribution rather than directly to a compiler (even
> though you used it in a context that did not even hint at this
> fact).
>
> And quite another to leave someone twisting in the wind who
> _obviously_ needs to be clued in. Who posted _specifically_ to
> you requesting further information on the subject.
>
> I really do _not_ appreciate it.

I had no intention of making life difficult for you.  I really did think 
other people were using this too.  I will check the web, out of curiosity.

Thanks for correcting my English, but please don't take it as a personal 
insult if I was not intelligible.

I don't remember what the compilers are even called, I am not good at 
compiling like you seem to be.  I had a great deal of help compiling the 
few things I did compile.  My kernel is broken in two respects (won't 
work with loop linux or udhcpc).  I just keep experimenting.

> Lee