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LindowsOS Will Bundle AOL Client
ealar dlanvuli writes "BuisnessWeek Online is reporting that AOL/TW and Lindows have decided to work together in bundling a version of Netscape 7 with future Lindows products. One wonders if they should instead be supporting OEone and making it scream."
It's dwindled a lot over the years, especially as a lot of the content has moved on to public webservers. But basically a lot of media companies pay for the privledge to be a part of AOL, and they often provide some content to AOL users that they don't give to the outside world.
I personally rarely use AOL for anything but email and AIM now that the web has grown so much. The real benefit would be the ability to admin my email account and the like, which I can't do without a real AOL app.
But I'm a really clued user. There's millions who aren't. A lot of people stay right there within the bounds that AOL sets. It's very organized and fairly well set up. Every portal site you've ever seen is basically a rip off of the AOL model of organizing information for the user, and occasionally personalizing something. It's passe to do that on the web now, but it was once a very nice thing.
And as for the ISP part, you can't connect to AOL if they're your primary ISP through Linux. They don't use standard ppp or the like, but something proprietary.
"I may not have morals, but I have standards."
I think (I'm guessing here) that this is just the default favicon for certain Web server software (probably iPlanet). If the favicon isn't specified, it automatically becomes a Netscape logo. There are heaps of sites like this.
OLPC Australia
Interesting. You're right, there it is. AOL client 7.0 sneak preview.
So my next question is how do they do this? Is the client fully native? Compiled with winelib? Just run through wine? Will this work on my debian setup?
Still, thank you for pointing this out. This is great news, especially if it can run in Mandrake and the like. Hopefully we'll know more soon.
"I may not have morals, but I have standards."
>The point is moot, anyway, since they're not
>really bundling the AOL client, but just Netscape
>(which is what the poster above is complaining
>about).
Right now at least... But, if you go to their website, they say they working on it:
Even though AOL can't currently be used as your
ISP to connect to the Internet from within
LindowsOS (that's being worked on)
And provide a link to download it:
http://www.lindows.com/aoloffer
And give you screenshots of AOL 7.0 running under Lindows:
http://info.lindows.com/aol/#client
It would hardly suprise me if, come the time of their Lindows 3.0 release, there was an AOL icon on the desktop like you get with a lot of OEM manufacturers.
Matt
They are testing an AOL client for Windows. For some reason, the story didn't post to it. Anyways, here's the URL: http://www.lindows.com/lindows_products_details.ph p?id=15
Yup.
/root/My Documents folder.
A couple of days ago I tried their 2.0.0 version and from a Linux user's point of view it's the worst piece of crap I've ever encountered.
Half of the stuff doesn't work, it's slow as hell and almost anything makes you run into their Click-N-Run program (for which you need a $99 a year subscription).
I sincerely hope this'll be the very last time I ever see a
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Do you actually have any idea at all about what OEone is building? It's not just some light shell slapped over a command line. It's an entire integrated operating environment designed from the ground up to be usable and understandable by the very masses who do buy their boxes from Dell and/or Best Buy. In fact it's also intended for the huge mass of people who haven't bought a computer at all because they find them to difficult to use.
AOL should be climbing all over OEone. It's the perfect vehicle for providing easy computer/internet access to the majority of people out there who still think Windows is to hard to use.
Um, actually that comment was in italics, meaning that the poster said it, not timothy. Timothy didn't even comment on this article. Yeah, the editors are usually at fault for stupidity like this, but not this time.
Would including Mozilla stop them from trying it out?
Including Mozilla 1.1 but not the AOL dialer would not allow users who pay AOL to give them access the Internet. AOL uses a proprietary protocol to dial the Internet, not standard PPP. Linux distributions support only standard PPP out of the box.
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