Hi,
Does anyone know of a project, eithor ongoing or in the planning stages, to
port AOL to Linux??
Thanx
Max
Hi,
Does anyone know of a project, eithor ongoing or in the planning stages, to
port AOL to Linux??
Thanx
Max
[posted and mailed]
If you want AOL to port their software to Linux, you should probably talkQuote:> Does anyone know of a project, eithor ongoing or in the planning stages, to
> port AOL to Linux??
However you can try running the Windows 3.1 (or possibly the Windows 95)
version of AOL under a Windows emulator such as Wine (www.winehq.com) or
Wabi or Twin. (AOL 3.0 for Windows 16-bit works to a degree on Wine, I
haven't tested the others since I don't have them.)
Given that AOL won't even publically support Windows NT, let alone create a
flavour of AOL V4.0 that runs in 32 bit mode on WNT, I can't see that they'll
be terribly interested in supporting any flavour of Unix, let alone Linux. They
claim, for example, that you can't run 56k modems unless you're running Windows
95, which is utter nonsense. I've asked several times in their forums (fora?)
for AOL 4.0 about support for Windows NT, and the silence has been deafening.
Given that they don't understand Win32 very well, it's unlikely they'll be
amenable to helping us out, unless we somehow create a DCOM client to Linux.
I'm shopping around now for a real ISP, after patiently waiting several months
for AOL to get its act together, to no avail.
>If you want AOL to port their software to Linux, you should probably talk
>to the AOL folks... It's unlikely but not impossible that they might
>decide to create such a port (or at least a Java port for total
>portability, like they did with Instant Messenger). In the short term
>however no such project appears to exist, nor could it exist
>outside of AOL Inc. without either AOL's support or an extensive
>reverse-engineering effort.
One example is "Aloha", an AOL mail client that runs natively on the
Newton. There's no reason similar software couldn't be written to the
POSIX specs, to get us a Linux version.
--
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> One example is "Aloha", an AOL mail client that runs natively on the
> Newton. There's no reason similar software couldn't be written to the
> POSIX specs, to get us a Linux version.
And no public text file describing AOL protocol?
Hi,
Any comments on the setup of the Matrox Mystique, with Xfree86 would be
appreciated.
Cheers,
David Pearson
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