[Nottingham] What distro?

Jim JimTheBad at ntlworld.com
Wed May 24 00:30:36 BST 2006


On Tuesday 23 May 2006 22:56, Iain Lennon wrote:
> On Tuesday 23 May 2006 22:28, Jim wrote:
> > So the mp3 patent issue is affecting all the distros then, I take it?
> > Dagnabbit.
>
> I´m using the 64bit version of mandriva 2006.0
> I selected this over fedora a year ago specifically because of the MP3
> issue as I already had a large stack which I couldn´t face converting to
> another format. Mandriva will play them out of the box: I currently use
> amaroK on KDE.
>
> The plf rpm source can also add packages with possible legal issues such as
> libdvdcss as it is not maintained by mandriva and therefore does not appear
> to pose a corporate risk to them

I think we might have a winner!

Thanks everybody for your advice!

Jim



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