The World of Peer-to-Peer (P2P)/GnuFU
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[edit] Future Plans
- Encryption - Making it impossible for the provider to see what you are downloading. Bearshare already does this for communicating with other Bearshare-clients.
- Privacy (See AnoGnut
- Caching of popular conten
- Magma-Links - Multiple-file-magnets, like playlists
- What's New? - Finding New Files in Gnutella
- Grouping by language/locale (Implemented in LimeWire, allows you to find documents in your own language far easier
[edit] How to get in?
To become part of the Gnutella Network, you can use one of the clients listed on Gnutella (should that be down, just use this list, or the list on: dmoz, or better still, learn to program and help furthering the development of some of the open-source clients. I'll list some clients here, though this list needn't be exhaustive. If you know a client not listed here, please add it
[edit] Open Source Clients
- LimeWire- A cross-platform Java client, shareware
- Frostwire- A fork of Limewire committed to never including content filters
- Phex - Another cross-platform Java client, but with fewer developers and freeware
- Gnucleus - A LGPL client for Windows COM-base
- Gtk-Gnutella - A GPLed-client for GNU/Linux
- Acquisition - A Mac OS X client based on the Limewire core, written in Cocoa, shareware
- ezpeer - A Chinese client. I don't know any more about it, as I don't speak Mandarin. I'd be glad if you could send me information at my [arne_bab@web.de email] in English, German or Esperanto
- pp365 - Another Chinese client
- POCO - Yet another Chinese client using GnucDNA
- XNap - A multi-network program in Java using the Limewire Core for Gnutella.
- Shareaza - Another big client for Windows, multi-network (Gnutella, eDonkey, BitTorrent and Gnutella2 aka Mike's Protocol)
[edit] Closed Source Clients
- Bearshare - A big client for Window
- CocoGnut - A commercial client for RISC O
- Swapper - A free closed source client for Windows utilizing .NET
- TrustyFiles - Another Windows client, which once used GnucDNA and supports FatTrack (KaZaA), Gnutella and MikesProtocol G2 aka MikesProtocol,
[edit] Links for Users
- Mac-P2P-FAQ - A FAQ on p2p-filesharing MacOSX with the main focus on Acquisition
- Zeropaid - A p2p-Community, often somewhat rude.
[edit] Resources for Developers
- GnucDNA - A component for building P2P applications. COM based
- Gnucula - A project attempting to implement GnucDNA in portable C++, for *nix systems and Mac OSX
- open-limewire - The Limewire Sourcecode (Java). The core can be used like GnucDNA
- LimeWire Source-packages - The LimeWire sourcecode displayed as webpages
- rfc-gnutella - The official specifications of the network-protocol
- Magnet-Uri and MagnetLink.org - Information on Magnet-Links
- Infolio Gnutella Developement Directory - Interesting papers on Gnutella
- GnutellaPapers - A list of academic resources on and about Gnutell
- eMule France - French eMule Web Site
- Forum eMule France - French eMule Board
- eDonkey 2000 France - French eDonkey Web Site
- Forum eDonkey 2000 France - French eDonkey Board
- BitTorrent France - French BitTorrent Web Site
- Forum BitTorrent France - French BitTorrent Board
[edit] License
This document is being published under the GFDL, the Gnu Free Documentation license, which you can find here Iin its current state it is also avaible under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike-licence as PDF.
[edit] Contributors
- Janet did a great job proofreading and smoothing the text
