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["Ron Clarke" <ariadne AT ausreg.com>]

Hi Lee,

On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 15:04:00 -0800, Lee Forrest wrote:

> 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

  <snipped>

> Not everyone here has a background in slackware.

  No, but BasicLinux is based very much on Slackware distributions, and
the acronym "SW", especially when written as SW4, SW7.1, SW8.1, SW9.1
etc., has been used on this list pretty much from the beginning.

  Don't blame Sindi for using it.  If anything, you might blame us all
for not making it clear to good folks joining the list, and it might
have saved you what appears to have been baffling jargon.

  On behalf of all of us, I do apologise for not making it clear sooner.

> 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.

   True, it is a technical forum based around a specialised distro, in
turn based on Slackware. And I don't think Sindi was the first to use
it.

Regards,
         Ron



Ron Clarke
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