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