good p2p clients? kazaa lite?

whol · 2004-03-25 17:21:47

I'm wholly unfamiliar with p2p clients under linux, though I really liked kazaa lite when I was running windoze. There was also Direct Connect, which was pretty good.

I saw a screenshot of an Arch Linux users desktop, and he had a "Kazaa" icon on his desktop (I forget where I saw the pic). I wonder if he was really running Kazaa on Arch?

thx

dp · 2004-03-25 17:31:45

hmm ... i dont know kazaa or something like this, but p2p under linux is called "gift" and consists of a daemon and clients ... dont know the details, but i tried it and it can find a lot of ebooks over the internet very fast (using fasttrack, openft and gnutella -- hope others knowing better about it can tell you more) ... my help:

[damir@Asteraceae /]$ pacman -Ss gift
extra/gift 0.11.6-1
    A bridge between P2P protocols and front-ends.
extra/gift-fasttrack 0.8.5-2
    A FastTrack plugin for giFT.
extra/gift-gnutella 0.0.9.2-1
    GiFT's Gnutella plugin.
extra/gift-openft 0.2.1.2-1
    GiFT's OpenFT plugin
extra/giftcurs 0.6.2-1
    A curses frontend to the giFT daemon.
extra/giftoxic 0.0.9-2
    A GTK frontend for the giFT daemon
[damir@Asteraceae /]$

robot5x · 2004-03-25 17:45:30

It is possible to get Kazaa running on Linux but I've got no idea why you'd want to. Gift has everything you need - it's easily the best p2p I've used. Suports OpenFt, Gnutella and FastTrack which means I can usually connect to 3.5m people...there are packages for all these and even a nice ncurses frontend.
Wowee.

mldonkey is also worth trying.

kritoke · 2004-03-25 17:50:31

I myself tend to use amule for p2p stuff and I am the maintainer of it in the staging tur. It is the official client of emule (which is an awesome edonkey2000 clone in windows). I actually met one of the developers of emule. They tend to be pretty active in developing it.

Kritoke

wakeupbomb · 2004-03-25 19:22:31

Use gift with all the plugins and use apollon as the front end. It looks wonderful. But I don't think apollon is in pacman...but I may be wrong.

robot5x · 2004-03-25 19:57:15

There's no package for apollon, but it is in incoming.
There are also packages for Direct Connect but I've never used them so wouldn't be able to say what they're like -
extra/cccp 0.9-1
CCCP is a Direct Connect filesharing client that uses DCTC (Direct Connect
Text Client)
extra/dcgui-qt 0.2.20-1
Direct Connect 4 Linux File Sharing program.
extra/dclib 0.2.20-1
Libraries for the Direct Connect 4 Linux (dcgui-qt) File Sharing program.
extra/dctc 0.85.9-1
A Direct Connect clone

Luis Q. R. · 2004-03-25 21:04:24

I don't use p2p clients in Linux because I've tried some and they didn't work quite right, and because I don't know how to make the ed2k links work in the browsers. I use Overnet and Kazaa in Windows because:

- They download fast.
- I don't care about spyware and trojans because my personal information is stored in Linux, and Windows can't access it. It's used just for games and crap.

im_ka · 2004-03-25 21:27:33

i use nicotine (pacman -S nicotine) for music. it's a soulseek client. great p2p to download music.

i use lmule for movies. it's not really fast, but i'm patient

i'll check out gift

Shemeta · 2004-03-25 22:02:42

i am pretty happy with Gtk-Gnutella.

whol · 2004-03-26 06:00:09

Thanks for all the feedback, I now have gift running. I don't guess it's named after "the gift that keeps on giving"? This weekend I will try some of the others, looking forward to amule.

whol · 2004-03-26 06:00:26

Thanks for all the feedback, I now have gift running. I don't guess it's named after "the gift that keeps on giving"? This weekend I will try some of the others, looking forward to amule.

bigh · 2004-04-14 21:14:50

Kazaa = Fasttrack.. So its easy to run fasttrack under linux... but it sucks anyway..

im_ka · 2004-04-23 00:34:35

www.limewire.com

aCoder · 2004-04-23 00:44:52

I like Limewire, but I stopped using it after gift-gnutella started working, and it helps that Arch has a package for it.

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