Novell and Red Hat to Provide RealPlayer 10 with Linux

“…Novell has agreed to make the RealPlayer 10 for Linux the default media player for RealAudio, RealVideo, Ogg Vorbis and Theora codecs.” “Red Hat, Inc. (NASDAQ: RHAT), and RealNetworks, Inc. (NASDAQ: RNWK), today announced an agreement to ship the completely open source Helix Player with Red Hat’s desktop products. Red Hat will also offer a no-cost upgrade to RealPlayer 10 for Linux to Red Hat customers upon their initial installation of the Red Hat Desktop when the player is available later this summer.”