Turbolinux Licenses Windows Media 9

spike-288 writes "According a press release, Turbolinux is the first major Linux distributor to license and ship a media player capable of streaming Windows Media audio and video. The new product, "Turbolinux 10 F..." is based on Turbolinux 10 Desktop but will also include licensed versions of Macromedia Flash, legal commercial DVD playback (via Cyberlink's PowerDVD player), RealPlayer 8, commercial Kanji fonts and iPod support via gtkpod (including enhanced functionality)." Update: 04/28 02:33 GMT by T : Prostoalex adds "The Windows Media codecs for Linux will be available for download for $64, the complete TurboLinux OS will cost $150 in Japan and the United States."

Comments

Big Deal

[LightStruk]

Turbolinux is really stretching the truth when they claim to be the first to support WMV and RM on Linux. I run Gentoo, and I've been able to play these formats for over a year. I did the following:

# emerge mplayer
# emerge win32codecs
# emerge realvideo-codecs

Cost: $0.

Running a Free operating system for free: priceless.

Why?

[photon317]

My $0 gentoo install plays every windows media file I've ever come across without paying any licensing fees or being illegal. Even streaming web media via browser plugins, etc.