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RealAudio Player 3.0 for UNIX
Release Notes

System and Software Requirements

RealAudio Player 3.0 is available for the following UNIX systems:

  • Linux 1.2.x with an OSS (Voxware) 3.0 sound driver or Linux 2.0.x with an OSS 3.5.x sound driver on a Pentium machine.
  • Solaris 2.5
  • Solaris 2.4
  • SunOS 4.1.x
  • Irix 5.3
  • FreeBSD 2.0

To display your UNIX version number, type the command:

    uname -a
Note for Linux users:

To display the Open Sound System (OSS) version number, type the command:

    cat /dev/sndstat

If you do not have a OSS 3.0.1 or Voxware/TASD 3.5-beta1 Sound Driver, you can download one free from the OSS Driver Home Page.

RealAudio Player for UNIX requires:

  • An Internet Connection. You can connect through a direct link (such as a T1 link) or through a modem. It is stronly recommended that you use a 28.8 Kbps modem (or faster connection). A 14.4 Kbps modem will limit your ability to access much of the higher-quality RealAudio content.

  • An X11 Windowing Environment, version R4 or later

  • A color or grayscale display

  • 16 megabytes of RAM

  • 2 megabytes of free disk space

  • A web browser:

    • Netscape Navigator, version 2.0 or later
    • Mosaic, version 2.6 or 2.7

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