Hello,
I recently received an email from Mark, a slack-get user, who asked me a very simple question : why have I called slack-get this way ?
Well, this is a tricky question. Let me answer this :

At first I wanted to call it get-slack, this is the name of the menu you have to click on Slackware's website. But it was to close from the website and I didn't want to take this initiative (at least not alone, I could have ask for the permission of Pat or the crew). So helped by a huge sense of originaluty and creation, I decided to switch syllable and/or letters.
I came with some nice thing like : gsletack or gstckael but I was afraid somebody else already took the name (and a bit afraid about the poor americans unable to pronounce that ... not talking about Japanese... and not talking about me !).
So I finally came with slack-get, a bit inspired (i must admit it) by an obscur soft called apt-get, and largelly because of the signification of slack-get's acronyme :


So, Mark, I hope that I answered your question ;-) Else feel free to send me another email (I like receving email from slack-get users, particularly when they are kind with me and slack-get !).

See you later,

Arnaud Dupuis