2008/9/29 Shambo Bose <shambo.linux@gmail.com>

Hello

The nvidia and ATI grahics drivers are freely available from their website .
So, why can't we add them to yum repository. If there is any roblem we can add them to a secondary non-free yum repository.

I have also faced some questions from fedora users in my locality that : why mp3 music and some video formats cannot be played out of the box ?

Thanks.

Shambo Bose

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Their drivers are freely available, yet they aren't open sourced, which is why they aren't included with Fedora.

As for MP3? Its because of a patent issue. The MP3 Codec *may* not be out of the box, but as soon as you play a file, you are prompted to download it from Codeina and a few minutes later, you're playing MP3s. (The downside is that this requires an internet connection).

Just my 2c.

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