My main concern about the new RealPlayer10 (RP10) was that it might break some of my older scripts and applications that I use to rip ogg audio files. I already have Slack 10 running in another partition on this machine with RealPlayer8 so I can compare the new and old on the same hardware. My test box is a home built Abit AI7 mb, Pentium4 2.4GHz, 512MB ddr, 60GB Maxtor, Geforce3 ti500 video my trusty old Ensoniq 5880 audio card and nice high-speed cable broadband. My main linux machines all run Slackware and Dropline Gnome so it seemed best to work with a ‘plain vanilla’ clean install. 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. The recent announcement of RealPlayer 10 for Linux caught my eye and I decided it was worth taking it for a test drive. I confess I am a BBC Radio addict living in the USA and streaming audio is my only way to listen. 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.
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