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[Lee Forrest <lforrestster AT gmail.com>]

On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 09:56:54PM +0000, sindi keesan wrote:
> >>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,

So? You'll get a million more with the search string: "alien
abduction".

Just because a bunch of people with nothing better to do than run
their mouths on the internet do so, doesn't mean that they know
what they are talking about.

Without a standardized vocabulary we are going to become a tower
of babel. And the place to go for the correct way to refer
to slackware is to slackware users and maintainers, not some
non-slackware blog or web forum.

See if you can find "SW" on slackware.com. Good luck.

And it isn't used on the slackware usenet newsgroup.

> but a much larger number on deb, RH, and fed.

So? Once again: Anyone can _say_ anything on the internet.

I've never heard a debian user refer to the distro as "deb",
and I have been using it for years. 

And I don't give a tinker's damn what some motormouth without
a life on a blog or web forum says.

But what they say will turn up on a web search.

[delete]

Lee