[TriLUG] AOL Redhat Linux?!?

[Bill Vinson]

Unfortunately AOL has dropped all development for <= OS 9.  Well you say 
OS X is the future (as it is for Macs), but their finished client for 
Mac OS X sucks and is basically a crappy port of the OS 9 version with 
what seems to be no plan or thought at all.  Also, OS X AOL in the UK 
has been completely dropped.  AOL does not have a great track record 
lately of supporting non-Microsoft OS.  Now that is ironic as AOL 
started as Q-Link supporting Commodore 64, then changed to AppleLink 
supporting Apple II's and Mac's then eventually became AOL.

We will just have to see what the future holds...

Bill

On Saturday, January 19, 2002, at 08:14 PM, Matt Matthews wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 07:29:57PM -0500, Chris Merrill wrote:
>> My guess:  They are currently beholden to Microsoft - since
>> that's the only place that their software runs.
>
> FWIW, AOL has a Mac client. I think that they may even have, or be 
> working on,
> a MacOS X client.