[LUNI] A little lost with Redhat 4.0 ES

[Tom 'spot' Callaway]

On Tue, 2006-10-17 at 11:54 -0700, Ramin K wrote:
> 	I built http://jumpcut.com entirely on Gentoo which I've been using for 
> the past four years. I'm was comfortable with Gentoo and it allowed us 
> to easily install new versions of common packages without too much 
> trouble or having to build packages which probably saved me two months 
> of time... mostly because I suck at building them. Now that we've been 
> purchased by Yahoo! I need to transition over to Redhat 4.0. Right now 
> I'm just trying to get the environment setup and some of our custom 
> software tested. Having been out of the Redhat game (I think 7.3 was 
> really the last one I actually administered) awhile I've got a few 
> questions.
> 
> 1. Where are all the packages?
> 	Looking for things like imagemagick, lame, ffmpeg, mplayer, etc. 

Red Hat doesn't include things which are patent encumbered (lame,
ffmpeg, mplayer) or illegal in the US (mplayer). 

Hooray for software patents and goofy US laws.

~spot
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