It has been told many times already. 768 dots may be OK for a phone. For a laptop, anything less than a 1000 is just sad news.

BSPlayer shows ads. IIRC, VLC has none.

I'm not telling you about gay people. No homophobia here, no.

What I actually say is that the expected reaction from an average russian-speakin user is highly predictable. 'Pidor' is a banned word, it is highly offensive, maybe the closer analog will be your 'nigger'. Would you use such a distribution, like, 'Nigger Linux' ?

Well, then, fuck you. Please don't flag this -- I'm just sciencing -- will you 'take an offence to the point that you will complain' or not?

This is a perfect example of brand blunder. No offence to the Canadian team, but a perfect brand blunder it is. It's probably not a direct equivalent of pushing a product badly mis-named for the target market, but it will eventuate in a whole lot of misunderstandings, all totally undeserved.

A little bit of linguistic research would be appropriate. OTOH, we have GIMP, and everyone is getting happily along with it...

You say like there is no 155 million people on this planet

I'm a native russian speaker. Product named like that when translated back will look like 'faggot'. It would be less offensive if you call it 'fagdoora' =)

> I usually boot it in 20s on my virtual servers

Running stock kernels (and with a standard set of rc services) as a server os is suboptimal. You will be amazed what make nconfig can do for you.

A binary ffmpeg built on one of my core2 machines wouldn't run on another, due to ssse4.1 used here but not there.

I guess gcc *did* some ssse4.1 optimisations, then?

> Seriously, what good are programs you can check and compile yourself?!

When source is open, it's not so much for end users to inspect it (although they very well might), but for them to rest assured that *others did*, and verified it's clean.  That's the whole bloody point of any Linux distribution.