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Can I use AOL while using LINUX?

ZOOYUKA

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