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

Posted by nixcraft on Nov 11, 2006 10:16 PM EDT
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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!

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