Good announcements on Slashdot today for the open source and Linux community:

• RealPlayer 10 has been released for Linux as a free download. Slashdot notes that it uses the GPL'd Helix Player and "has many new features including a Mozilla plug-in, so you can now enjoy all those embedded media clips, as well as the latest RealAudio 10, RealVideo 10, MP3, Flash, and Ogg Vorbis and Theora support."
• CNET reports that CodeWeavers's newest version of CrossOver Office will support iTunes (link via Slashdot).
• The NY Times reports that IBM is giving Cloudspace, a java-based database environment (similar to Oracle) valued at $85 million, to the Apache Foundation. As noted in these Slashdot comments, must be a good tax break for IBM while stimulating development in a lagging project.