[Tfug] Aol redhat mirror

[Sam Hart]

Actually, there is an AOL Linux client that will be released (supposedly). 
The Sony PlayStation2 has a Linux dev environment available for it, and 
AOL has used it to port their wares to the PS2 for its upcoming broadband 
release. I don't have the links for this, but do a search on Google for 
"linux + ps2 + aol" and I'm sure you'll find something. Also, there was a 
blurb in an issue of OPM (Official PlayStation Magazine) last year about 
it. It might have been cancelled now, but it was at least something they 
were able to show off at the last Japanese E3-type show (it was in Feb or 
Jan).

Anyway... I'm aware this isn't what you're talking about... but it's 
somewhat interesting none-the-less.

On Wed, 31 Jul 2002, Anthony Hess wrote:

> 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
> 
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