Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 19th Mar 2008 23:05 UTC, submitted by AdamW
The sixth pre-release of Mandriva Linux 2008 Spring is here. This pre-release includes support for easy synchronization of Windows Mobile 5+, Blackberry and Nokia devices, the Codeina multimedia codec installation system, support for Radeon HD 3xxx series graphics cards, more improvements to the Mandriva software installation tools, the finalized 2008 Spring theme, a new metapackage for easily installing a complete LAMP setup, and available KDE 4.0.2. See here for download information.
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RE[4]: Codeina - legal codecs
by jabbotts on Thu 20th Mar 2008 12:22
in reply to "RE[3]: Codeina - legal codecs"
Member since:2007-09-06
The overall content of my short and undescriptive comment was that by providing legal codecs, Mandriva can be sold and used in regions where patent facism exists; DVD description codecs being the example chosen. My comment stands and does relate to the orginal post by intent but I could have been more descriptive.
Cheers for the clarification though and thanks to too the previous post for listing off other legal codec packages users can choose without being forced into running win32/64 against there will.
RE[5]: Codeina - legal codecs
by KLU9 on Fri 21st Mar 2008 13:59
in reply to "RE[4]: Codeina - legal codecs"
Member since:2006-12-06
patent facism
oh dear... if people are really going to start equating software patents to fascism (has a patent software supporter ever beaten you with iron bars and poured castor oil down your throat for resisting his third way between capitalism and socialism?), then I suppose free software really is communism.
can I declare this thread "Godwin-Lite"-ed?
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2005-07-06
LinDVD is specifically for playing DVDs. None of the things you mentioned are relevant to this. The only freely available decoder for CSS (the encryption scheme used by DVD) is dvdcss. The use of dvdcss to watch encrypted commercial DVDs is illegal under the DMCA in the U.S. and the EUCD in the E.U.
Yep, it may be an ass, but it's the law.
Codeina isn't relevant to this, it does not handle DVD decryption, only providing licensed codecs for common video and audio formats.