Honest to gods, this conversation happened today, and it may have cost me a job opportunity. The customer was super impressed with my menu design and animation, and wanted to know who we got it from. When I said I did it, their face lit up! Too bad as soon as i said GIMP, they weren’t interested anymore. Has anyone else experienced this? What do you say in similar situations?
Btw, Slackware is a reference to the Church of the SubGenius, which is quite anti-mainstream.
And the name was specifically chosen to keep people from taking the project too seriously.
Same with Freax, which was renamed to Linux by Ari Lemmke when he uploaded it, without consulting Linus Torwalds first.