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

> > 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.
>
> > > 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.

Google/linux gave quite a lot of hits on SW8.1, but a much larger number 
on deb, RH, and fed.  Do SuSE and Caldera have acronyms?

Sindi