Not actually true. From the comments on the linked page: It’s available for Linux, just have a typo in the release URL on their website. See: http://download

Not actually true. From the comments on the linked page: It’s available for Linux, just have a typo in the release URL on their website. See: http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/vlc/2.0.0/vlc-2.0.0.tar.xz http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/vlc/2.0.0/vlc-2.0.... Took 2 minutes to figure that one out (If you look at the nightly snapshots, you’ll see they are all .xz).