Editing Slackware (section)

==Name==
The name "Slackware" stems from the fact that the distribution started as a private side project with no intended commitment. To prevent it from being taken too seriously at first, Volkerding gave it a humorous name, which stuck even after Slackware became a serious project.<ref name="interview">{{cite web | url=http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/2750 | title=Interview with Patrick Volkerding | access-date=July 3, 2007 | last=Hughes | first=Phil | date=April 1, 1994 | work=[[Linux Journal]] | archive-date=June 2, 2007 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070602074922/http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/2750 | url-status=live }}</ref>

Slackware refers to the "pursuit of Slack", a tenet of the [[Church of the SubGenius]], a parody religion. Certain aspects of Slackware graphics reflect this<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.slackware.com/~msimons/slackware/grfx/|title=Slackware Graphics and Link Banners|website=Slackware.com|access-date=July 22, 2017|archive-date=July 16, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170716215356/http://www.slackware.com/~msimons/slackware/grfx/|url-status=live}}</ref>—the pipe that Tux is smoking, as influenced by the image of [[J. R. "Bob" Dobbs]]' head.

A humorous reference to the Church of the SubGenius can be found in many versions of the ''install.end'' text files, which indicate the end of a software series to the setup program. In recent versions, including Slackware release 14.1, the text is [[ROT13]] obfuscated.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://mirrors.slackware.com/slackware/slackware-1.1.2/a3/install.end |title=install.end |format=TXT |access-date=August 31, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306111027/http://mirrors.slackware.com/slackware/slackware-1.1.2/a3/install.end |archive-date=March 6, 2016 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://mirrors.slackware.com/slackware/slackware-14.1/slackware/a/install.end |format=TXT |title=install.end |access-date=August 31, 2024 |archive-date=March 5, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305021827/http://mirrors.slackware.com/slackware/slackware-14.1/slackware/a/install.end |url-status=live }}</ref>