My wife has to have aol email. Non-negotiable. I have failed to get netscape 6.2 in linux to work with aol email.
If I want to stay with her current wintel computer, win4lin is an alternative. I would like to install a new version of linux (self configuring and all that) and have her run win4lin off the server. However, I have having some issues with running win4lin (and other things, too.) as a remote X session. I suppose I could install linux, then win4lin, then windows on her computer, but that all seems like way too much work. Also, I would feel duty bound to buy another copy of win4lin. The lowest ball arrangement would be to set up her wintel box as a diskless client. However, that could be a configuration headache. I would likely break my current ltsp server in the process. But, I guess the itch I really need to scratch is getting one of those fancy iMACS. I really don't need a very sophisticated file sharing arrangement between the iMAC and the linux server. I just want to be able to backup up her hard drive and store mp3's on a server. So, if the iMAC can talk to the linux server, whether with AppleTalk or samba, that would be fine with me. I don't know much about MOL. If is like win4lin, I wouldn't be too enthused about it because win4lin, while doing everything as advertised (It really does work.) can't do everything you can do in a native windows session, like play games. Joel On Sun, Mar 10, 2002 at 12:23:23PM -0800, Net Llama wrote: > Well, the thing is, while Macs can do SAMBA, they'll natively do > AppleTalk. Linux will do both, although SMB support is far more mature. > Have you considered perhaps installing something like Yellow Dog Linux > on the Mac, and then running MOL (Mac on Linux), which is basically > Win4Lin for Macs, except its open source? > > Also, what exactly in AOL does your wife want/need? _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
