LimeWire
LimeWire is a multi-platform Gnutella client with nice features like auto-connect, groups, browse host, multiple search, upload throttling, connection quality control, library management and sophisticated filtering. It is built for the both the novice and power user.
| Tags | Communications File Sharing Networking |
|---|---|
| Licenses | GPL |
| Operating Systems | OS Independent |
| Implementation | Java |
Recent releases
- 05 Dec 2005 22:08
Changes: This release fixes a bug which caused crashes when searching for something with a strange name.
- 11 Mar 2005 13:00
Changes: This release addresses past security problems. Upgrading is highly recommended.
- 16 Feb 2005 16:10
Changes: This release adds UPnP support to open firewalls for TCP connections to applications. Support for creative commons licenses and searches has been added. Firewall to firewall support now works in more cases and uses less bandwidth.
- 17 Nov 2004 13:14
Changes: Firewall to firewall transfer between two firewalled users. The ability to pause downloads. Faster connections. Ogg support in the new MP3 player. An improved look and feel.
- 18 May 2004 13:18
Changes: A new user interface including a new connection quality meter that gives user feedback on the stability of their network connection. A “What’s New?” feature allowing users to browse the network for the most recent content additions. The ability to search drill down results. Searches now immediately display the artists, albums, and other information that fully describes files. Each search shows at least five times as many results as previously. Support for international searches. Reduced load time.
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Recent commentsBad search?
In this review http://releasenotes.org/limewire (http://releasenotes.org/limewire) I read:
The developers of LimeWire claim that their software has no ads or any other undesirable content in it. Despite that, there are quite a lot of ads and files with fake names. File names in search results may contain URLs of some sites so pay special attention to what you are downloading.
Is it true? Thanks
Re: Stability? Not that I can see
> I strongly disagree with earlier posts
> that LimeWire has good stability. I'm
> using a stock Redhat 7 install and
> LimeWire (or perhaps rather the JRE that
> LimeWire requires) has hard-crashed my
> machine twice in the last three days. I
> will no longer run this app unattended,
> and will probably uninstall it if I can
> find a decent curses-based client.
Hmm, perhaps you should try not using a distribution that's nearly 3 and a half years old!!!
Re: Trojan horse
Wow. There's a lot of misinformation flying around here. There were about 4 days a year ago where LimeWire and almost every other major file sharing application (Kazaa, Grokster, BearShare, etc) were all mistakenly including a desktop shortcut to a program called DLDER.exe that would, in fact, collect information about users for some small company in the midwest. This occurred because each of these companies was partnering with Cydoor, which misled everyone as to the nature of the software. As soon as we found this out, we removed it, and we have not done any business with Cydoor for about 8 months. So, we're talking about a 4 day issue from long ago that was addressed as soon as it was discovered.
Stability? Not that I can see
I strongly disagree with earlier posts that LimeWire has good stability. I'm using a stock Redhat 7 install and LimeWire (or perhaps rather the JRE that LimeWire requires) has hard-crashed my machine twice in the last three days. I will no longer run this app unattended, and will probably uninstall it if I can find a decent curses-based client.
Limewire
Like most of the Gnutella clients these days,
Limewire lacks a very large amount of basic
features. To cover up these holes they choose to
implement a host of "flashy" features that, without
a solid platform, become no more then buzzwards.
Upload throttling? Barely, lowest setting on DSL
takes up
half the bandwidth available to the connection and
thats without including network overheard!
Swarming downloads, multiple searches, quality
control, queues.. It doesn't matter without the
freedom to modify the client to your connection
your either going to end up starved of bandwidth
or unsuccessful in your searches. We should all
share, but its not worth it if you can't benefit
yourself. Check out GTK-Gnutella, haven't gone
back since.. supports bandwidth shaping, swarming
downloads, queues, etc, etc..