That "Christian fairy-tale" you are whining about is responsible for more joy, laughter, wonder, and good will in this world than anything else you can name.
You don't have to believe in God or Jesus Christ to appreciate the magic of Santa Claus, and what it means to millions of people with purer hearts than you or I possess. So lighten up.
And Merry Christmas.
The last thing I'd hear in this hypocritical country is some protestant pastor telling his or her congregation to treat everyone equally, regardless of religion, skin color, sexuality. Watch Fox News, they make sure every conservative jesus lover's hatred is refreshed before the beginning of this CHRISTIAN holiday. Santa Claus is Saint Nicholas of Myra. No buts. I guess you can thank Clement Clarke Moore and Thomas Hast for "de-religionizing" the look of the character, but there is no way you can take this holiday and shove it into the faces of everyone, as you would just be another Christian trying to mix in your traditions with other peoples' cultures. Happy Holidays.
Which reminds me of two famous quotes.
"God is dead" - Nietzsche
"Nietzsche is dead" - God
When it takes a man to make up a quote from God, then God is definitely dead.
But can you run Pico in it?
No one cares about pico. You might as well compare a log of feces to a work of art. Features outweigh simplicity. vi rules.
Are not available yet....
Bah, don't worry; Adium will quickly integrate support I'm sure. I don't know about you but I'd prefer Adium over the Pidgin design for ANY operating system any day. Unfortunately they use Mac only frameworks. Porting (and most likely using an easy OS independent toolkit like Qt) would be a great project for inactive coders. Dunno about you, but I find Skype's interface 20 times more attractive than Pidgin's. Skype uses Qt 4.
Not a big deal; right now I'm using 32-bit Windows XP Home edition as my primary OS and 32-bit CentOS 5 is in a virtual machine for Linux open-source software development
You're hardly a software developer - you aren't willing to find solutions yourself - you expect some distro with a dickhead of an admin to make it so it magically works. Seriously, these issues you list don't exist and don't depend on the distro at all. You're a developer - compile your own kernel.
but I'm wondering if anyone has backported the newer Alps touchpad driver to work with CentOS's version of X
The source code is free. CentOS doesn't use an ancient version, so compile it. git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/xorg/driver/xf86-input-synaptics/. That's what synaptics and alps use. Backported? wtf? CentOS uses X.org code so I'm a little lost on what the hell you mean.
Anyways, my point of this response is that your issues are bullshit if you are going to wear a developer's mask.
The problem is some spirituals, such as Christians, believe cloning is like playing God, and should be eschewed by all means.
In that sense, we are in fact playing a role of their "God". Why don't they pray to their god and tell him to finally show himself in a physical sense and then we can discuss what his little rules are regarding this. This reminds me of that quote, "God did not create man in his own image, rather, man created God in his own image." Science is becoming God.
Why not put yourself out of your misery and upgrade to Mac OS X?
You now can install OS X on non-Apple hardware?
erm. yeah. since 2005. intel and amd systems. google and inform yourself. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSx86
The OLPC package is nice, but promotion words promotion description blah blah DamnSmallLinux http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/ blah blah advertisement promo.
err.. how much are the DSL devs paying you for this promo? Let me know as I am interested in a piece of the action, dude.
How are you violating the DMCA? Does it have something to do with decoder library licenses or something?
Hand in your geek card.
What's the next one on the list to go over, how about the fact that Trolltech's (now Nokia's) toolkit is a word, not an acronym. Qt (pronounced cute) - not Q.T. grr. I could go on with you and your "unix daymon" retarded pronunciation habit as well, but my arm is getting tired of the cane shaking.
So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of money? -- Ayn Rand