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Originally Posted by Darth Vader
As a fun note: for someone raised in Romanian Culture, and who know a bit of English, the Slackware have a very meaningful name, and I believe, very appropriate to its real philosophy.
Literally, the Romanian would understand: "a software for lazy guys", and by loose interpretation, the sense would become as: a very stable software which require almost no maintenance.
Very appropriate by the Slackware as you know, right? 
OK, that was also the sense of my joke, which I seen to not be well appreciated by our BDFL... |
I know perfectly where the term "Slackware" came from and I do maintain my Slackware's manually without slackpkg, but I have to say, I feel exactly like Darth Vader has put it. I'm a graduate student and I'm very much the only one using Slackware, so when the people around are sweating while their Ubuntu eats up their RAM, while Windows is being hacked, while some other distro is broken due to dependencies, I am sitting quietly with a smile, looking at them and thinking: "I wish I had a beer".
Ahhh, I appreciate these moments.
Anyway, that IRC thing will not take the shine off Slackware. Because, Slackers use "slack" the way they want and they know what they mean. And, I would like to add something inspired from frankbell's signature: Once you Slack, you know what it means, and you don't go back, of course.
