P2P Clients under Linux


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While I'm not into the whole illegal sharing thing, P2P still has it's uses. It's a lot easier to for me to find a friend on DirectConnect to pull a 30MB zip of pictures, than it is for him to attempt to e-mail to me. Or BitTorrent for ISO downloads. Or to find some new mods that might not be on www.modarchive.com and the latest commercial Ayu has done *g*, etc etc etc. But I have yet to find ANY decent clients for the DirectConnect, BitTorrent, and Gnutella networks.

I've used Limewire for Gnutella, but the resources a java-based app takes after being open for awhile is RIDICULOUS! DC++, via CrossoverOffice 2.1.0, works but all subWindows (such as the settings/prefs window) are blank. I'm sure I could edit the XML file for the settings, but that's probably more pain than it's worth.

I was going to run VMware, but on a PII400/192MB ram, it just isn't possible, without killing the system. I'll leave that for my desktop system.

So what do you use? What do you recommend? I'm not concerned about whether it's GUI bsaed on Qt or GTK (I use Enlightment for desktop, so I've got compatibility either way and use a mix already) or if it's console based. I just want something that works and is stable.

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I've heard that Shareaza (gnutella, gnutella 2, ed2k, bit torrent) can run on linux using either Wine or WineX. If that doesn't suit you, you could try out Adagio (gnutella 2) which is a native linux client but I'm not sure how well it performs.

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hi!

Try mlDonkey.

Currently it supports:

- eDonkey

- Overnet

- Bittorrent

- Gnutella (Bearshare, Limewire,etc)

- Gnutella2 (Shareaza)

- Fasttrack (Kazaa, Imesh, Grobster)

- Soulseek (beta)

- Direct-Connect (alpha)

- Opennap (alpha)

So you have everything in only one client.

It has it's own Telnet and Webinterface.

Several GUIs are avaible too.

It runs on my Linux-Router/Server (PII 400, 256MB) with only 1-2%CPU-load.

bo

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I'd try aMule instead of xmule or mldonkey. If I'm not mistaking amule ist the only linux edonkey client that has zlib support which compresses files whilst transferring. Some servers kick mldonkey clients. Plus xmule is a discontinued project. See http://xmule.sf.net .

aMule/xmule have one drawback: very high cpu load :(

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aMule/xmule have one drawback: very high cpu load :(

which is exactly something I want to limit ;) thanks for the note.

i use giftd with fasttrack plugin and giftoxic as the gui interface, works quite well

First, is this what you're talking of? Looks interesting. I'll keep an eye on this project - if someone develops a DC plugin - it just might be exactly what I'm looking for.

I have to wait til tomorrow before I start nabbing source, but I think for the time being I'll be giving mlDonkey and aMule a whirl. I'm not all that concerned about kicks - DC wise I only use 2 servers (SomethingAwful's SADCHUB and ADTRW Baka Baka Hub) and for the others - well - if someone kicks me, I can always find someone else.

Thanks for the suggestions.

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aMule/xmule have one drawback: very high cpu load :(

which is exactly something I want to limit ;) thanks for the note.

i use giftd with fasttrack plugin and giftoxic as the gui interface, works quite well

First, is this what you're talking of? Looks interesting. I'll keep an eye on this project - if someone develops a DC plugin - it just might be exactly what I'm looking for.

I have to wait til tomorrow before I start nabbing source, but I think for the time being I'll be giving mlDonkey and aMule a whirl. I'm not all that concerned about kicks - DC wise I only use 2 servers (<a href='http://www.<< filtered for offensive content >>/' target='_blank'>SomethingAwful</a>'s SADCHUB and ADTRW Baka Baka Hub) and for the others - well - if someone kicks me, I can always find someone else.

Thanks for the suggestions.

yea that link to gift.sourceforge.net is it, its just the daemon so you could use any client that works with it

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Nicotine is a great SoulSeek client. I think it is at nicotine.thegraveyard.org.

The Shadow's Experimental BitTorrent Client is good for BitTorrent.

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The only one I'd use is BitTorrent and that would be for the occasional software title. As for LimeWire, I used to use it and I got busted for uploading certain movies, yet I'm a Canadian! :s Major security holes in that and since that, I don't download nor upload songs and movies anymore.

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The only one I'd use is BitTorrent and that would be for the occasional software title. As for LimeWire, I used to use it and I got busted for uploading certain movies, yet I'm a Canadian! :s Major security holes in that and since that, I don't download nor upload songs and movies anymore.

thats just limewire using gnutella network which i think is buggy and slow to begin with, that nicotine client with soulseek is good along with giftd and any client to go along with that is your best bet

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