[vox] Heresy! AOL on Linux?

[Jonathan Stickel]

Richard Crawford wrote:
> Having chatted with my sister a bit, I find that the two major features
> she wants to keep from AOL are:
> 
> 1.  Her e-mail address (she says she's had it for so long it would be too
> much of a hassle to change it; though I figure it would be nice to have a
> new e-mail address that isn't inundated by spam); and
> 
Doesn't AOL email offer POP or IMAP access?  Almost all paid email 
service does.  Then you can use whatever email client you want.

> 2.  She frequents several AOL role-playing chatrooms which, she says, can
> only be accessed directly from AOL.  I don't know about that one; I've
> never had a problem getting into AOL chat rooms from GAIM, but I haven't
> tried very many either.
> 
> Yeah, I'd love to install Linux with KDE on her machine, but I don't think
> it's going to happen.  Ah, well.  :-(
> 

Dual boot with Linux the default boot option :)

Jonathan