Re: How to connect to AOL in linux

["Alan Mead" <amead8695 home com>]

My mother-in-law uses AOL and I tried to find a way to migrate her to Linux
several months ago.  At that time, I searched for a Linux AOL client and
found some rumors but no code.  I considered trying Wine and, unless an AOL
client for Linux has materialized in the mean time, I recommend you go that
route (or one of the emulators like Win4Linux (?) or vmware).  If you do a
web search and check-out the Winehq page, you'll find others who have tried
and their successes and failures.

... or you could get a regular ISP account.  I have a hard time imagining
AOL ever producing an AOL client for Linux.  And IMHO the kind of people who
could reverse-engineer the Windows client and create a Linux version are not
the kind of people who are using AOL in the first place.

-Alan

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jacken Yim" <jacken-linux 21cn com>
To: <Redhat-list redhat com>
Sent: Monday, October 08, 2001 2:14 PM
Subject: How to connect to AOL in linux


> Hi,
>
> I can use AOL service in Windows, now I try to use linux to surf internet,
I tried to setup the dial-up, but failed to connect to AOL, the modem is ok.
any thought?
>
> Jacken Yan