“I had bitter feelings about RealNetworks products and practices
years ago, but over the last couple of years I find that
RealPlayer8 is one of the first apps I open on my linux machines. I
confess I am a BBC Radio addict living in the USA and streaming
audio is my only way to listen.“The recent announcement of RealPlayer 10 for Linux caught my
eye and I decided it was worth taking it for a test drive. Since I
was not sure how this might impact my production machines I decided
to just slap a new instance of Slackware 10 on a spare partition of
my test box. My main linux machines all run Slackware and Dropline
Gnome so it seemed best to work with a ‘plain vanilla’ clean
install…”