Which is the best Gnutella client for Linux?
 

Hi!

I have decided to make two polls this time, one for Linux clients (this here!) and one for Windows clients!

Vote for the best client!

Morgwen

Mutella looks great up to now
 

Well, there's just one vote so far :-))

Btw, can I vote or it should be considered unfair? ;)

P.S.: it was not me to give that only vote!

--Max

Sure!

Developer are allowed to vote too! :)

Morgwen

hmm w/ as many forums i visit, polls usually don't get the attention you'd expect.

mine w/ for limewire (clean limewire to be exact). but then again i only used phex and gtk-gnutella besides lw. both are quicker to load and all but the true multisource is what has me.

i seem to like lw more on linux for some strange reason...

I'd like to vote ... but it doesn't work ... tried it yesterday and did not work either ...

Hi!

Can you vote now? If not send CycloCide a PM that he check the problem!

Morgwen

*grml* no!


Using Linux SuSE with own 2.4.10 kernel, Mozilla 0.96

Try accessing the boards from <http://www.gnutellaforums.com/> so the cookies stay consistent.

Hm I thought it may be a cookie problem as well but ...

Also the cookie manager shows that there are 4 Cookies from gnutellaforums.com

Strange ...

Ok ... I deleted the cookies, signed n again and it works ...

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 :mad:

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
 

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 :(

Gnut.
 

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

Can I change my vote?
 

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

:p

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 :D

Re: Can I change my vote?
 

Hi...

I would suggest you share less files. I doubt they are all really of high demand...

Gregor

Oh yeah - and Phex too... GregorK just reminded me of that.

I wonder if mutella would handle that... Never had that much files around to test :-)) I guess 'library' command will be slow and inefficient...

Anyways, it make most sense to share exactly RARE content, because the net is full with the common stuff anyways. 99% of my gnutella use for example I am looking for some rare tracks and movies.

Go on Bobo, keep your stuff out and I'd delete upload leaders because this stops people that are looking for rare stuff from getting your files :-))

--Max

I never tried to share 50,000 files with LimeWire but I can imagine that it would take at least 50MB just to share them, - a lot more if they are mp3s since LimeWire would try to read their mp3 tags. LimeWire really hasn't been designed to share that many files (although I think it will work, if your machine has enough RAM ).

gtk-gnutella's Raphael claims that his program is able to share 100k files and that he does so regularly to test it's limits. gtk-gnutella is certainly much faster than the bloated qtella (solid c versus c++/qt). - So I would try that.

As far as mutella is concerned - that damn thing will requery every every 60 seconds. So if you have 10,000 mutella peers with one running query as your network horizon , sending a ~ 60 bytes query every 60 seconds it amounts to about 10kbytes/s for each peer (not counting duplicate queries) just to forward those damn queries without even transmitting a single reply packet. In my opinion the developer deserves a good beating for that.

It's even worse than Xolox, although that really brings the network down because of its market share.

Please vote here:

http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...threadid=22208

Morgwen