Update: Real Announces Red Hat and SUSE/Novell Deals

VNUnet: Red Hat Adds Helix Player to Desktop

"Red Hat has signed a deal with RealNetworks that will see the Linux firm bundle the open source Helix Player with its desktop products.

"Under the terms of the agreement Red Hat will also offer a free upgrade to RealPlayer 10 for Linux to its customers on their initial installation of the Red Hat Desktop when the player is available later this summer..."

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Yahoo! News: RealNetworks Signs Distribution Agreement with Novell

"In an expansion of partners distributing the award-winning RealPlayer 10, RealNetworks, Inc. today announced that users of Novell's next Linux desktop will be able to enjoy popular business, educational and entertainment content on the Internet using RealPlayer. Novell has agreed to make the RealPlayer 10 for Linux the default media player for RealAudio, RealVideo, Ogg Vorbis and Theora codecs. Additionally, Novell is contributing resources to help qualify RealPlayer on its Linux desktop.

"These new agreements with Linux development partners, Novell and Red Hat, complement existing agreements with Sun Microsystems and Turbolinux, establish RealPlayer and Helix Player as the new standard for audio and video on the Linux desktop..."

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