AOL usage?

[Shotpiece]

Ok, so my girlfriend is currently running XP and not surprisingly has managed to gunk it up with more spyware, freezes, slowdowns, and constant error messages than i could have thought imaginable. At one point, i decided to put Mandrake on a partition to let her try it out and not have a completely messed up desktop, but it turns out she uses AOL, which appears to just.. not let you connect to their service unless you use THEIR software (which i did not know) . My question is did i just do something flatout wrong... or .. is there some way to get around this? Can you connect to AOL and just browse normally as with any normal ISP?

[vvonder]

http://www.google.com/search?q=aol+linux turns up a few things, like pengaol

[Shotpiece]

oops... always try google first i guess

Thanks for the reply.

[vvonder]

Just be thankful I didn't send you here