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 LimeWire 4.8.1 (Default)
Section: Unix

 

Added: Sun, Jan 14th 2001 01:19 UTC (7 years, 8 months ago) Updated: Mon, Dec 5th 2005 22:08 UTC (2 years, 10 months ago)


About:
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.

Release focus: Major security fixes

Changes:
This release addresses past security problems. Upgrading is highly recommended.

Author:
LimeWire Team <info (at) limewire (dot) com> [contact developer]

Rating:
7.56/10.00 (9 votes)

Homepage:
http://www.limewire.com/
Tar/GZ:
http://www.limewire.com/index.jsp/download
Zip:
http://www.limewire.com/LimeWireSoftOther
Changelog:
http://www.limewire.com/english/content/features_history.shtml
RPM package:
http://www.limewire.com/LimeWireSoftLinux
OS X package:
http://www3.limewire.com/download/LimeWireOSX.dmg
Purchase:
http://www.limewire.com/index.jsp/pro

Trove categories: [change]
[Environment]  Win32 (MS Windows), X11 Applications
[Intended Audience]  End Users/Desktop
[License]  Free To Use But Restricted, OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)
[Operating System]  OS Independent
[Programming Language]  Java
[Topic]  Communications :: File Sharing, System :: Networking

Dependencies: [change]
No dependencies filed

 
» Rating: 7.56/10.00 (Rank N/A)
» Vitality: 0.02% (Rank 3863)
» Popularity: 11.74% (Rank 167)

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 Branches

Branch Version Last release License URLs
Default 4.9.37 06-Dec-2005 GNU General Public License (GPL) Homepage Tar/GZ Changelog

 Releases

Version Focus Date
4.9.37 Minor bugfixes 06-Dec-2005 06:08
4.8.1 Major security fixes 11-Mar-2005 21:00
4.4 Major feature enhancements 17-Feb-2005 00:10
4.2.2 Major feature enhancements 17-Nov-2004 21:14
4.0.2 Major feature enhancements 18-May-2004 20:18
3.8.5 Major feature enhancements 13-Feb-2004 09:14
3.6.6 Major feature enhancements 22-Oct-2003 15:07
3.3.5 Major feature enhancements 09-Aug-2003 07:22
3.0.2 Major feature enhancements 23-Jun-2003 03:33
2.9.8 Major feature enhancements 03-Apr-2003 22:35

 Comments

[»] Bad search?
by akorz - Aug 10th 2008 13:18:43

In this review 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

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[»] Stability? Not that I can see
by Mojo Tooth - Apr 7th 2003 14:00:01

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.

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    [»] Re: Stability? Not that I can see
    by hackel - Feb 15th 2004 08:00:21


    > 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!!!

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[»] Limewire
by doveclaw - Apr 3rd 2003 18:25:37

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..

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[»] Trojan horse
by Leo Fellermayr - Jan 16th 2002 07:13:29

Yeah, and since v2, Limewire contains a trojan horse which collects information about the URLs you have visited with your browser.
I do /not/ think this is a real good idea, so I wont install LimeWire on my fresh installed systems anymore.
Probably, only the WinSUXX version of Lime is affected by this. Dont know.

Leo.

--
Leonhard Fellermayr http://www.felnet.de/

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    [»] Re: Trojan horse
    by Adam Fisk - Jun 23rd 2003 15:13:13

    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.

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[»] Stability vs. Ram-Usage
by Nick - Aug 3rd 2001 09:44:46

This Applications succeeds in stability, and is somewhat speedy. But where it gains in stability, it lacks in ram-usage.

A reliable, good looking not too slow Gnutella client.

--
flea

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