PengAOL

Robert Todd robert_todd at adelphia.net
Sat Jul 19 19:50:27 EDT 2003


On Saturday 19 July 2003 16:20, you wrote:
> Here's the link to the new project site:
>
> http://www.peng.apinc.org/eng/
>
> They stopped the "PengAOL" name due to apparently receiving a "Cease and
> Desist" order on behalf of AOL.  Peng is just a dialer, not an AOL
> client, according to the site.
>
> My question is, with all the dialers built into the modern GNU/Linux
> distros, why this one?  KDE has KPPP, Gnome has it's own (I forget it's
> name atm), or theres the command line PPP/PPPscript. To each their own I
> suppose, but since people mentioned it, I'm looking at Peng too.

AOL does not use "true PPP" per se, as it always uses it's own "network 
adapter" that it's installer installs on a Windoze system when you install 
the AOL client software.



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