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rsk
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He means it's some weirdo unofficial site, that may or may not alter the program or show ads.
Official is http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ .

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OverlordQ
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it's VLC bundled with adware.
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Is it a GPL violation (by not including a copy of the GPL)? I tried to verify, but the download link on the site is broken (getting timeouts, once managed to get an incomplete 200KB installer).
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I used to use Gentoo everywhere when squeezing every last drop of CPU out of your system mattered. I like Debian based distros now, but Debian itself is (or was) too far behind everybody else, so I use Ubuntu.
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This is was my first shot at Linux. Tried Ubuntu (several times). Felt too desktop-oriented. Went with CentOS.
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glg
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gainesms wrote:
This is was my first shot at Linux. Tried Ubuntu (several times). Felt too desktop-oriented. Went with CentOS.


Yeah, if you use the desktop install, it's going to feel desktop-oriented. Try the server install.
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Have it as a desktop OS.
Open source.
Great Community
Easy to learn, easy to install and debug.
Google is more efficient in finding help with Ubuntu related problems ;)

What more can I say, just love it :wink:
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