RE: [SLUG] LimeWire and SuSe

From: Mikes work account (mrock@stewartsigns.com)
Date: Thu Aug 02 2001 - 09:39:56 EDT


I just took a cursury drive through the Limewire web pages and have to ask?

Can this program be used within a domain only to manage tasks or projects
with shared files??

somethng like MS Exchange??

Or is there another program that does this better in Linux?

Michael C. Rock

> -----Original Message-----
> From: slug@lists.nks.net [mailto:slug@lists.nks.net]On Behalf Of Paul
> Legato
> Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2001 1:59 AM
> To: slug@nks.net
> Subject: Re: [SLUG] LimeWire and SuSe
>
>
> On Wednesday 01 August 2001 11:35 am, you wrote:
> > ... I heard about this in an NPR oped - comedy piece a couple of
> > days ago -- Are Open Source sources to limewire available? Could
> > you give me a steer pelase?
>
> Try http://www.limewire.com/ . LimeWire is, unfortunately, not
> open source,
> but privately funded commercial software that will most likely
> become adware
> as soon as it's out of beta. It's a pretty advanced Gnutella
> client though,
> it's written in Java so it'll run just about anywhere, and it's very user
> friendly (as Gnutella clients go). I've had problems running it
> on Solaris
> and Linux which all disappeared once I got the latest Java Runtime
> Environment (JRE) from http://java.sun.com/ to run it with.
>
> For the technically inclined list members, they're also
> sponsoring a contest.
> You write a paper on how to improve the Gnutella network, and the
> winner gets
> a thousand bucks and a trip to New York to discuss the paper with the
> LimeWire developers.. they basically want free research, but hey,
> if you were
> gonna open source your research anyway, why not pick up some cash
> along the
> way? :)
>
> --Paul
>
>
>



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