cd penggy-0.2.1
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.
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
cd penggy-0.2.1
make make install
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
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.
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.
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.
[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.
Actually, there is an AOL Linux client that will be released (supposedly). The Sony PlayStation2 has a Linux dev environment available for it, and AOL has used it to port their wares to the PS2 for its upcoming broadband release. I don't have the links for this, but do a search on Google for "linux ` ps2 ` aol" and I'm sure you'll find something. Also, there was a blurb in an issue of OPM (Official PlayStation Magazine) last year about it. It might have been cancelled now, but it was at least something they were able to show off at the last Japanese E3-type show (it was in Feb or Jan).
This project is meant to allow Linux (and other open source users) to use AOL's services as a full member. However, I would like to state that the main project manager doesn't work for AOL and doesn't have access to any of the AOL source code.
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No any version released.