[Tfug] Aol redhat mirror

[Anthony Hess]

I'm betting a large percentage of the "Joe Sixpack" computing public would 
be well served by a well implemented AOL/OpenOffice/Linux solution if it 
came in quite a bit cheaper than AOL/MSOffice/Windows.

I wonder why they wouldn't release it, at least as an unsupported product.  
Maybe it used WINE and didn't run well?  The code must be reasonably 
portable to run on Mac and Windows.  It also seems to have been ported to 
Carbon on OS X pretty nicely (AOL actually runs pretty well on OS X from a 
performance standpoint, perhaps they could give Microsoft some pointers 
with MS Office :) ).

Tony

> Does AOL have a Linux client?  Any word on one?  It seems like it would
> be a good fit for 'cheap PCs' loaded with AOL.
> 
> There was supposedly a version of AOL 5.0 written for Linux.  Never
> seen it  with my own eyes though, and it was never released to the
> public.  Kind of a  shame, IMHO.
> 
> -Brian


Anthony Hess
Support Systems Analyst, Sr.
University of Arizona