Limewire

[Net Llama!]

On Mon, 16 Feb 2004, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Feb 2004 16:04:48 -0500
> Jerry McBride <mcbrides9 at comcast.net> wrote:
>
>
> >
> > As for pirated music... yes. But I only use it for the education
> > purposes...
>
> Limewire uses the gnutella network. This is a p2p file sharing system. You
> can share anything. It is not limited to music files. Although I have seen
> it used that way in these parts... I have been using limewire for years. It
> has always run fine on Caldera, Gentoo and SUSE. My only suspicion is that
> limewire may not always be doing the best searches. Hard to tell. One nice
> limewire feature is that when downloading a file, it can resume the file
> from another place if the original source goes away. This also happens
> across sessions of limewire. So if you get half a file today, maybe the
> second half will be gotten the next day. In a p2p network, the other guy is
> not required to stay around.

Unless you really like limewire, i'd recommend gtk-gnutella.  It has a
signifiacntly smaller resource footprint than limewire, and connects to
the same network.

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