Real to plug Windows media support into Linux, from News.com.

Currently, Linux users can play Windows Media Video (WMV) and Windows Media Audio (WMA) content if they install RealNetworks’s closed-source modules which Novell will include in its Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 in the fourth quarter. Furthermore, RealNetworks will release open-source code to play the files as part of the Helix Community project as well.

It’s special that it will change as the result of settlement of an antitrust suit against the software giant Microsoft.

RealNetworks also is evaluating adding support for the AAC, an audio compression format used by Apple Computer’s iTunes and others.

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