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SlaxVersusSlax
The SLAX language is named for "Stylesheet Language Alternate Syntax". Juniper started development on SLAX as part of the on-box scripting features in the 2004/2005 time frame. The name "SLAX" was adopted after the Juniper management requested that we remove the leading "X" from the original internal name.
At about this same time, the "SLAX" linux distro was named, but not being involved in the linux world (we're a FreeBSD house), we were not aware of this name conflict for many years.
When we were made aware of the name conflict, we consulted with various parts of the Juniper family, and no one was interested in changing the language name. We repeated this procedure as we were publishing this open source version, but again, no one was interested in doing the internal and external work to change the language name, since the name conflict was considered minor and not an issue for our customers.