TOM Technology News US East October 6 (October 7, Beijing) officially announced at the Linux World meeting held on Wednesday, October 7th, Beijing, China. The latter will provide users' open source software media player to users in their red flag Linux operating system.
On June 28 this year, Linux software vendors Red Hat and Novell have also signed similar agreements with RealNetworks. In addition, Turbolinux and Sun micro-systems have signed a cooperation agreement with the company. RealNetworks has been working hard to promote our media playing software in the open source software. Last year, RealNetworks released its Helix video and audio compression technology and the source code of the Helix DNA media server. These technologies support file formats including MPEG-4 and Windows Media. In order to be consistent with open source software, developers can freely use any part of HELIX technology to study or purchase the license for this technology for commercial software.
Industry Observers pointed out that the number of users currently using the desktop Linux software is still very small. However, this transaction of Red Hat and Novell will drive RealNetworks in a favorable position in future growth.
In addition, RealNetworks also released a new Linux version of the new Linux RealPlayer Media Player that supports 9 languages in the near future. RealNetworks sells the media player developed as an open source software, mainly to suppress the current operating system overlord Microsoft monopoly rule in the field of media player software.
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Tom.com
