On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 08:31:08PM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: > On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 23:57, Pigeon wrote: > > A friend of mine has a Win2k PC which has suddenly decided that it > > can't load some extremely fundamental driver and therefore reboots > > itself before it has finished booting. The standard cure of > > reinstalling Windoze is not possible because he doesn't have the Win2k > > CD. Also, he's fed up with virus attacks. So I've suggested nuking > > Windoze and installing Debian. > > > > The machine is fairly lightly used, and only by his kids - he doesn't > > use it himself - for email/chat, "homework" (simple WP AFAICT, doesn't > > involve transferring files to/from school computers) - and KaZaA. That > > seems to be the fly in the ointment. Googling for "kazaa client" linux > > only turns up something from May 12 saying basically "from this date > > there is no Linux KaZaA client no matter what you may read elsewhere". > > > > Does anyone have any more up to date information on the availability > > of KaZaA clients for Linux? > > There is mldonkey which connects to quite a few networks including > fasttrack which is the Kazaa-lite network (it doesn't use mldonkey by > default, but I think it can be enabled through the menus, if not then > through the setup file). > > There are packages for debian, you need > mldonkey-gui > mldonkey-server > I am not sure if they are in the regular archives or whether you need to > use the following line in sources.list: > deb http://marillat.free.fr/ unstable main It appears to be present in unstable, but the source code is mysteriously missing - the Debian package search page says "Source code: Not found". marillat doesn't appear to have it at all. However, the nongnu site has the source. Cool. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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