[NBLUG/talk] Linux for an AOL addict?

[Walter Hansen]

Oh, I'm pretty gosh darn sure that there's a version of AOL's chat client
in the Linux world.

> I realize I know a little bit more than that. AOL also has DSL services.
> Now the DSL hardware is the same as any other DSL, so the actual AOL
> software for DSL service has to use pure tcp/ip.
>
> But here's another lead. I'm pretty sure that AOL customers can now access
> AOL services from 3 party computers via the web. I may be wrong, but a
> little digging at AOL should tell the truth. Now the big question, if this
> is true, is how similar to the software interface the web interface is and
> whether you're friend would put up with it. I could be wrong, but I do
> have some associates that use AOL and I tend to pick up information.
>
>> On Sun, 2005-07-17 at 23:35 -0700, Walter Hansen wrote:
>>> 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.
>>
>> Sounds promising...
>>
>>> All the little AOL &*(^&^% probably requires their
>>> software. Don't have a clue about it's availablity in linux. Dual boot?
>>
>> Dual-boot will not suffice for this kind of technophobe.  If I can't
>> provide EVERYTHING she expects from a Windows PC without resorting to
>> dual-booting, she'll never boot into Linux, not even to save her own
>> sanity.
>>
>> I can see two possible solutions:
>>
>> 1. Install WINE, so that all the little AOL &*(^&% will run on Linux.
>> I've never used WINE (yet), so I don't have any idea how well this would
>> work.  I wouldn't be surprised if it proved slow and crash-prone, and
>> while that might be acceptable for a veteran Windows user, it wouldn't
>> be acceptable for me (as the guy who sets it up).
>>
>> 2. Find an alternative to all the little AOL &*(^&% that will provide
>> all of the same so-called "premium content" on Linux, either using AOL's
>> actual content or equivalent content pulled from other sources.  I
>> haven't used AOL for about 8 years, but I'm sure that such an
>> alternative would require lots of gaudy eye candy to be acceptable to
>> the average AOL addict.
>>
>> ---
>> Lincoln Peters
>> <sampln at sbcglobal.net>
>>
>> This place just isn't big enough for all of us.  We've got to find a way
>> off this planet.
>>
>>
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