[NBLUG/talk] Linux for an AOL addict?

[Walter Hansen]

I know that once you actually connect to AOL, it basiclly behaves like a
normal ppp connection. The linux software probably establishes the
connection only. All the little AOL &*(^&^% probably requires their
software. Don't have a clue about it's availablity in linux. Dual boot?

> I have a mutual friend who is convinced that her computer is painfully
> slow not because of the mass of malware that undoubtedly has infested
> her Windows 98 system (not to mention "Windows sclerosis"), but because
> the computer is a few years old.
>
> I might be able to perform a Linux installation that would prove her
> wrong (OpenOffice, Firefox, et al.), but she is using AOL and is
> unwilling to switch.  It looks like there is software
> <http://sourceforge.net/projects/pengaol/> to allow a Linux box to
> connect to an AOL account, but it hasn't been updated since 2002.
> Furthermore, I found a few articles dating back to circa 2000 saying
> that AOL would move to Linux (at least on their servers), but I can't
> find any evidence of AOL client software for Linux.
>
>
> Has anyone tried to use AOL with Linux?  It is even possible?  Is the
> online experience so different from AOL on Windows that it would make a
> technophobe cringe?  (OK, that last question is a bit unfair, since I've
> met technophobes who would cringe if I just changed the desktop
> wallpaper on a computer.)
>
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