I prefer Qtella myself. A small download, a nice fast GUI using Qt so it integreates nicely into KDE, and some nice features, above those I had when I last tried Gnotella and Linewire. Plus I can't stand Java

Then maybe you should try LimeWire with JRE 1.4, - SUN is trying to make it faster. And LimeWire integrates very nicely into my Enlightenment/Gnome!

I like the interface and features of limewire alot (2.3.3 or later versions) but it's slow as dirt, probably because it's in java. Are any of the other clients close to it?

The spyware in the windows version sucks too

gtk-gnutella 0.90 beta is out today, with many enhancements and new features. Please test it intensively! Enjoy!

Download here:

http://sourceforge.net/project/showf...?group_id=4467

I like all Gnutella clients because no matter how small they are they still let you download and share files and some people like different features than others do.

I would think that these polls would be getting A LOT of ttention but they do not seem to

All The files that ppl share that use gnut are viruses and fakes!WHY????

Morgwen ... can i change my vote to Q-Tella please.

I'm a definate LimeWire convert ... I use Linux to host my P2P sharing efforts, as well as a few websites and an ftp site ... however, recently i finished compiling all the music in my library (to the tune of over 1000 cd's) to mp3s ... I'm also sharing numerous web development files (gifs, jpgs, etc ... )with some folks that I work with using gnutella ...

Long story short ... now that I'm sharing 49,857 files ranging from 5k to 1.8 Gig each in size LimeWire could not handle it ... I dont think its the LimeWire ... but Sun Java that the problem is with ... my pc would crash constantly ... on Linux that's hard to make happen ...

I switched to Qtella ... let me just say this ... DAMN SMOKEY!!! ... its faster, cleaner, ad free and much more efficient ... my hat goes off to its developers.

my $0.02

Err... Mr. Paradog has taken the right to change the vote.
Morgwen is not around here everyday...

I'd say the main reason a lot of us don't vote on this is because it's not an either/or situation. I regularly switch between gnut, mutella, Qtella, Napshare and LimeWire.

I think it is silly to compete and compare clients anyway.
Thats capitalism and I think we dont need more of it