[luau] version question

[Charles Lockhart]

> MPEG and MP3s are protected by patents, meaning anybody that distributes
> software using these patented methods are supposed to be paying royalties.
>  Red Hat's lawyers, as an american corporation, decided that it would be
> far too risky to continue distributing that software for that reason. 
> (read below before being upset)

Ah, ok, I see.

> All of your needs are served by using automatic package management tools
> like apt-get or yum and one or more 3rd party repositories.  By using
> these 3rd party repositories you gain not only automatic download &
> install of RH's normal packages and errata updates, but also
> hundreds/thousands of additional packages made by community volunteers
> specifically to work on that versoin of Red Hat Linux.
> 
> Look for xine and mplayer packages in these 3rd party repositories.  They
> have far more functionality than the almost useless and crippled xine that
> used to ship with RH 7.3.

Ah, thank you.

In regards to the rest, well, as my grandfather used to tell me, "they 
just make those laws so you've got to break them."

-Charles