On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 08:13:36PM -0500, Gerald Livingston wrote: > On Thu, 17 Oct 2002 02:52:40 +0200 Gytis <gytis@tainet.lt> wrote: > > So , could all of you share your opinions about p2p software under > > linux? I'm interested in kazaa and winmx networks ( edonkey for me > > works fine under mldonkey). I used lopster as an alternative to > > winmx, but now it can't get conected to winmx redirect servers, and > > normal winmx server give me an Server error ( winmx fixed something > > ?). And as for kazaa i haven't found any working program ? ( smthng > > mentioned in mldonkey cvs but ...). Incidentally, there were two Linux clients for Kazaa for a while there; giFT worked, and Kazaa even released an officieal Linux/x86 client. The official one got pulled and the protocol encrypted when they got bought out tho. > Are there any linux p2p clients that multithread downloads the way KaZaa > does on a win platform. Ie. find 6 or 8 different sources for an > identical file and download a small piece from each server, effectively > increasing download speed to the max your inbound pipe can handle. I use > qtella right now but even if there are 10 different sources for a file > that all match (name/size/etc.) it only downloads from the one source > you direct it to. I think LimeWire does this. Based on gnutella, but it doesn't murder your bandwidth handling searches. -rob
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