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Description

Peng is a free software under GPL licence which allows to compose a phone number and connect to your internet provider under Gnu/Linux. It is compatible with provider like Aol.

Source

http://www.peng.apinc.org/eng/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/pengaol/

ftp://ftp.penggy.org/birdy57/penggy/sources/

Related Urls

Comments

Version 0.2.1

prerequisites installation

umb-scheme-3.2-25.i386.rpm guile-1.4-8.i386.rpm guile-devel-1.4-8.i386.rpm tun-1.1-6.rh72.i386.rpm

Build & Installation

cd penggy-0.2.1

make
make install

Configuration & Twisting

setup the following files:

/usr/local/etc/penggy/penggy.cfg
/usr/local/etc/penggy/aol-secrets

/usr/local/etc/penggy/phonetab
#4168507240
#4169160050
4168834265
4163643400
4163647288

Aol access number

http://intlaccess.web.aol.com/cgi/Search.pl?keyword=canada&Submit=Search
CANADA (1) Toronto (416) 850-7240 57.6 $2.95  AOLnet
CANADA (1) Toronto (416) 916-0050 57.6 $2.95  AOLnet
CANADA (1) Toronto (416) 883-4265 57.6 $2.95  AOLnet
CANADA (1) Toronto (416) 364-3400 57.6 $2.95  AOLnet
CANADA (1) Toronto (416) 364-7288 57.6 $2.95  AOLnet

http://access.web.aol.com/
http://intlaccess.web.aol.com/

The Peng project

http://linuxtoday.com/infrastructure/2002101501026NWCYLL

By Adrian Petru Dimulescu

The Peng project (http://www.peng.apinc.org/), formerly known as PengAol, received an ultimatum on October 8th from the Arent Fox firm concerning the use of the "AOL" name within the Peng site. The project also received a request to transfer the www.pengaol.org (the project's former domain name) to AOL.

Peng was developed by a French team and is currently the only solution for Linux users to use an AOL connection. AOL haven't developed such a client themselves and they don't seem to have that on their priority list.

Moreover, there are regions of the world where AOL is the only broadband provider, so many clients are left with no alternative. To say nothing of the fact that often the clients are required to have an Win 95 or 98 installation to even get the Internet connections (the NT or XP platforms are not supported, either).

As a program, Peng, in our opinion, much better than its official AOL counterpart. It does not require a graphical interface (although it has one made with Qt), it can be started as a service, and it does not "kindly" interrupt your connection when you don't use your keyboard. It is not full of ads and does not make Internet seem like an AOL product.

The Peng project history

pengaol

http://www.tfug.org/pipermail/tfug/2002-July/001852.html

Wed, 31 Jul 2002

> 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.

AOL doesn't, but some french dudes do. Check out Peng: http://www.pengaol.apinc.org/ I have installed and configured it a couple of times and it works quite well.

PengFork

http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php?sid=2314

September 22, 2001

By the way a new unofficial AOL client is being rewritten from scratch under the name "PengFork". This new project will respect posix and thus be easily portable on all Unix systems. PengFork will also support ISDN, Cable and ADSL.

Penggy

http://www.peng.apinc.org/eng/

[08.12.2002] After several months of developement, the pengfork project finally ends. Futhermore, as a result of the debate on the bulletin board, project will now be called Penggy.