David Johanson wrote:
A couple weeks back I added a new HD and installed 9.0 on it for a friend's daughter (12 Y.O.) who is absolutely delighted with it and not looking to boot into the windows side again IF she can get connected to the internet with Linux. Problem is that she needed a new modem (real modem - that problem fixed over the weekend) but the ONLY source they have where they live is AOL. Not being familiar with AOL, can someone give me some advice that I can share with them as to how we get them on line with the modem and AOL. I'm fairly sure I know the modem part, but it's the AOL portion with which I don't have a clue.
David... Last time I checked, there was no such thing as AOL on Linux. And thank goodness for that... <grin> Sorry... You MAY have luck if you google around a bit for AOL and Wine... I know that I have no problem at all running MS Office 2000 at work on my Red Hat box running Wine... so AOL MAY run under wine... Another (but costly) approach would be to install VMWare and then install windows inside VMWare, and then install AOL inside Windows inside VMWare... heh... but that requires A: money for VMWare, and B: lots of RAM to support running Windows, AOL, AND X on a linux box... If you do happen to find some way to run the AOL software with an emulator, let us know... sounds like an interesting experiment at least... Cheers Jeff