more Mac OS X information
 

There are some OS X clients that aren't listed on the download pages here:

- Acquisition, http://www.xlife.org/aquisition.php . It uses the LimeWire code as a backend, but has a radically different (non-Java) front end so it actually behaves like a normal OS X application.

- There's a LimeWire clone called AquaLime http://www.geocities.com/mamiya0taru.../aqualime.html . I don't really know if that counts as a separate client though.

- Several of the programs listed as "Linux" clients have Mac OS X ports, through the Fink project (GNU-Darwin and OSXGNU may also have ported them, I wouldn't know). Right now, gtk-gnutella, mutella and qtella are listed at http://fink.sourceforge.net/pdb/section.php/net .

Please add some info about these to the Mac client list. At the very least Acquisition should be added--for the ported apps, perhaps a note and a pointer to Fink would be appropriate.

Cheers,
vasi

Not all the clients are listed because their are so many.

Plus the clones are not posted.

Acquisition is becoming quite common by now though, at least I see it in my connection list a fair bit. Also, there's currently not a single native Mac client listed, all the ones there have Java UIs that make them incredibly slow.

Well is it a clone?

Acquisition isn't a clone. It shares a fair bit of the back-end, but the interface is entirely different code and a different toolkit, it isn't even Java. At least 70% of the code in all is unique.

Then it should be listed :)

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