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Many CIX and Unix users prefer to run Ameol under Windows.
See the
Risks section.
However, there are a few who are happy enough with Ameol and Wine.
This is a personal choice.
Please read the Linux Advocacy HOWTO if you disagree.
Some recommended reading for the curious reader.
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Kestrel's Perch
Mac Jordan used to be a member of the CIX support team
and was one of the three cixen who assessed
the practicality of porting Ameol to the Mac.
(The port was judged to be possible but
of insufficient commercial value.)
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Clink
As an alternative to Ameol,
Clink will feed Cix posts into a local news server.
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CoSy
This is the conferencing system that Cix is based upon.
You could, in theory, use it as an alternative to Cix.
However, getting Ameol to work with it would have to be
the subject of another HOWTO...
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Secure POP via SSH mini-HOWTO
Theory and practice of secure tunneling.
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Firewall and Proxy Server HOWTO
General theory and practice of proxy servers.
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Linux Advocacy mini-HOWTO
Suggestions for how the Linux community can
effectively advocate the use of Linux.
Cygwin
is a UNIX environment for Windows.
It consists of two parts:
- A DLL (cygwin1.dll) which acts as a UNIX emulation
layer providing substantial UNIX API functionality.
- A collection of tools, ported from UNIX,
which provide UNIX/Linux look and feel.
The
ssh-ameol conference
explains how Ameol under Windows can use Cygwin
to securely connect to CIX.
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