LimeWire is a Gnutella client: Like Napster, only better. It doesn't have a
centralized downloading/serving location, and can change d/l connections on
the fly...It also has a wider variety of content: you can even find complete
DVDs, if you want. I've got something called gnut that is Open Source and
works out of the shell. No GUI there...
There's been debate in the Debian world about whether to include Gnutella
stuff in the Main distribution or not, because of Intellectual Property
issues...
Russell
On Thursday 02 August 2001 09:39, you wrote:
> 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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