I've tried Furi, LimeWire, and Gnutella. Furi is the best of the three. I run Windoze and Solaris, I can't get the LimeWire specific or java version to run on Solaris. Furi is great on both boxes, I use the java version on Solaris and the windows specific version on my other machine. The only problem is I can't connect to the default hosts provided by Furi but I added good hosts to my furi.hosts file and no problems. Personally I wouldn't try Bearshare as I heard they put spyware in their package which is a practice I detest.