Star EXCLUSIVE: Linspire Five-0 First Look
Linked by Adam S on Mon 14th Feb 2005 05:10 UTC
Linspire This past week, Linspire showed the first public demo of Linspire Five-0. I was lucky enough to play with it for the last week, and within, you'll find a detailed walkthrough of what's new with Linspire.
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Linux multimedia
by Chris Dunphy on Mon 14th Feb 2005 09:23 UTC

You cannot include VLC (or any other unauthorized program that circumvents DVD encryption) as parrt of a core distribution, if you are based in a country like the United States that has laws like the DMCA. You'd be shut down so fast your head would spin.

Same goes for other patent encumbered media codecs, like mp3 audio.