LXer: Why Linux don’t support mp3 and selected wifi cards out of the box?

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LXer: Why Linux don’t support mp3 and selected wifi cards out of the box?

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11-12-2006, 01:24 AM	#1
LXer LXer NewsBot Registered: Dec 2005 Posts: 128,351 Rep:	LXer: Why Linux don’t support mp3 and selected wifi cards out of the box? Published at LXer: This question is asked again and again. Short answer — copyright/IP laws prevent shipping all the software and technologies/plug-ins with each Linux distro. Some distributions come with all these goodies but they are not free. So how do I get mp3s and other stuff working? The following shows you the work around in most distributions! Read More...

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