Can I use AOL while using LINUX?

[ZOOYUKA]

Set of my pc with Ubuntu and was wondering if I could run AOL on it? Also, is there any worthwhile p2p softwares for LINUX users?

 

[Randabis]

If AOL has a linux client, I suppose it is possible. I really don't know.

P2P - bittorrent (several clients out there), dcgui (direct connect), nicotine, gIFT, aMule (edonkey/emule), and in the future Shareaza will be ported (port is in the works). There's probably plenty of others out there.

 

[StuckMojo]

ed2k is a good one, there's a nice gui for it too, on sourceforge

there is no linux AOL solution, although i've seen supposed screenshots from inside AOL of a linux client they were playing with. apparently they were toying with releasing an AOL appliance based on linux.

 

[Nothinman]

Do you mean AOL Instance Messenger or full AOL?

 

[Malak]

Originally posted by: Nothinman
Do you mean AOL Instance Messenger or full AOL?

If he means full deal, I'm going to cry.

 

[Abzstrak]

Originally posted by: malak

Originally posted by: Nothinman
Do you mean AOL Instance Messenger or full AOL?

If he means full deal, I'm going to cry.

me too

 

[bersl2]

Actually, if you have an actual AOL dialup account, you can still get an IP. The program is called penggy, or peng (note: there's a text editor called PENG; this is obviously not what you're looking for); the project's dead now, but I've used it before, at least under 2.4 kernels.

 

[drag]

AOL created some programs for Linspire to get AOL in Linux like you could in Windows. I don't know how easy it works anymore or anything like that.

They had a deal were you'd get a Lindows computer if you buy a certain type of AOL account or soemthing. It's all very vague, because I had no interest in it.

http://www.webpronews.com/news/ebusines...rNowAvailableforDesktopLinuxUsers.html

I wouldn't use Linspire, personally. It's Debian based, which is nice, but by default it has you using the root account (last time I checked), which is INCREDABLY STUPID THING TO DO. It can probably be made to work in any Linux, but I don't know anything about it beyond that. Could be difficult, could be easy.

 

[pavane]

I think most Linux Distros come with "Kopete" a multi IM application - like Trillian. I'm sure that it has an AOL(AIM) client interface

 

[user1234]

For instant messaging on linux, you could use Gaim - is supports all the protocols including aim,icq,irc, etc.... It's preinstalled in Ubuntu (hint: look at the Internet menu under Applications).

 

[darktides]

Gaim is nice and easy

 

[Davegod75]

Originally posted by: darktides
Gaim is nice and easy

 

[bersl2]

Though they sometimes are buggy, xmule and its fork aMule (a nasty separation, IIRC) are better than the closed-source program.