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+<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xmlns:ns5="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:ns42="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:ns4="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:ns3="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:ns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xml:id="media_selection" version="5.0" xml:lang="en">
+ <info>
+ <title xml:id="media_selection-ti1">Media Selection (Nonfree)</title>
+ </info>
+
+ <!-- papoteur 2013-04-11 - created -->
+ <!-- marja 2013-04-16 added screenshot + made title longer (because it was the same as for add_supplemental_media)-->
+ <!-- marja 2013-04-16 s/in/during/ as suggested by Tristan Campbell -->
+ <!--marja 2013-04-17 s/xml:id="media-selection"/xml:id="media_selection"/ (html filename was wrong)-->
+
+<mediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata align="center" fileref="dx2-media_selection.png"
+ format="PNG" revision="1" xml:id="media_selection-im1"/>
+ </imageobject>
+ </mediaobject>
+
+ <para>Here you have the list of available repositories. Not all repositories
+ are available, according to which media you use for installing. The
+ repositories selection determines which packages will be available for
+ selection during the next steps.</para>
+
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>The <emphasis>Core</emphasis> repository cannot be disabled as it
+ contains the base of the distribution.</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>The <emphasis>Nonfree</emphasis> repository includes packages
+ that are free-of-charge, i.e. Mageia may redistribute them, but they
+ contain closed-source software (hence the name - Nonfree). For example
+ this repository includes nVidia and ATI graphics card proprietary
+ drivers, firmware for various WiFi cards, etc.</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>The <emphasis>Tainted</emphasis> repository includes packages
+ released under a free license. The main criteria for placing packages in
+ this repository is that they may infringe patents and copyright laws
+ in some countries, e.g. Multimedia codecs needed to play various
+ audio/video files; packages needed to play commercial video DVD,
+ etc.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+</section> \ No newline at end of file