Shareaza 2.0 Released Under GPL 321
RageEar writes "Today it was announced that the latest version of Shareaza, a popular P2P application for Windows, was released under the GPL. Currently the source code is hosted by the Shareaza servers, but the announcement makes mention of the code becoming a project on Sourceforge. The binaries are still available for Windows only, but I imagine it is only a matter of time before a Linux port emerges."
Re:Better? (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Better? (Score:3, Informative)
"it made some important technical improvements, broke some new ground with an original P2P network, "upped the ante" with many of its competitors and probably contributed to the growing trend away from "heavy spyware bundling".
Shareaza 2.0: Open Source (Score:4, Informative)
Winelib. (Score:4, Informative)
d00dz! Build it for [Linux|*BSD|OSX]!
Either lots of recoding needs to be done, or if you're REALLY lucky, it'll build using Winelib.
I'd be interested to know if the latter works.
Re:Better? (Score:4, Informative)
Excellent! (Score:5, Informative)
It works okay, but the way it uses the temporary files is just wonky. It downloads everything into a temporary file and then splits or copies the file when it's completed downloading. While this is fine in theory, in practice the problem is that the act of the splitting/copying is heavy on drive use, slows the whole system down, and generally is a PITA to deal with. Furthermore this makes it difficult to use other BT clients with the files, if you happen to want to use a different client in the middle of a download. You have to manually split the temp file apart using a separate tool or manually create a temporary file for Shareaza to use for the torrent.
Why it can't use the standard create the files as you go method I don't know. I think it's because he just worked the protocol into raza using the existing codebase like the temporary files.
MLDonkey (Score:5, Informative)
Re:And Soon... (Score:5, Informative)
Re:anybody compiled it yet (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Remote access (Score:2, Informative)
Linux
SSH
screen
btdownloadcurses
Been doing it for ages........
Re:Better? (Score:5, Informative)
Very useful for me, as in the last year I recieved two "friendly letters" from the BSA and MPAA respectively.
Re:Shareaza 2.0: Open Source (Score:5, Informative)
Re:MLDonkey (Score:5, Informative)
A couple notes (Score:3, Informative)
Re:anybody compiled it yet (Score:5, Informative)
Re:do we really want OSS P2P apps? (Score:1, Informative)
Wouldn't that make my downloads legal, since I'm downloading with the copyright owner's permission
What I think many people miss is that you don't get in trouble for downloading, but for uploading. They participate in the network and watch who's making stuff available that they own copyrights to
Just trying to clear up this (very common) misconception...
From the FAQ: Not compatible with Kazaa. (Score:5, Informative)
Shareaza wants to be the Gaim or Trillian of P2P, however they only support open-spec networks like edonkey, gnutella, and bit-torrent. From the FAQ on their Wiki [anenga.com]
However if it can keep all of my bit torrent downloads in 1 easy to manage window with universal bandwidth management it may be worth it for just that.
Re:Kudoes and all; but,... (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Better? (Score:4, Informative)
Also, Shareaza's Gnutella performence isn't too great because:
1) Its Gnutella code hasn't been updated much because Mike (Shareaza's creator) seems to want everyone to use 'Gnutella 2' instead and he's been busy adding lots of features into Shareaza.
2) Shareaza is only a Gnutella Leaf node and depends on other clients to be the Ultrapeers but most Gnutella clients started to give preference to their own kind (ie. LimeWire mostly only connects to other LimeWire clients) even though it goes against their own ideology.
Try TermSvc or VNC (Score:5, Informative)
I often use either of these to check my Bit Torrent downloads from work. Once you start using it you'll wonder how you ever lived without it. Sometimes I find myself VNC'ing into a computer in the other room on my network at home just because sometimes I'm *that* lazy.
Re:anybody compiled it yet (Score:5, Informative)
Re:anybody compiled it yet (Score:3, Informative)
Another option is an abstraction layer between Swing & SWT -- there's some projects (SwingWT, to name one) that are doing that, but it's incomplete and LimeWire won't compile right now with it.
Swing is pushed to its limits (and sometimes beyond) right now with LimeWire, painting progress bars & icons on tabs, user-configurable change-at-runtime themes, tooltips & rowstripes for tables & lists, real-time statistics graphs, etc... a port to SWT (or an abstraction layer of SWT) would be a massive project.
Re:A couple notes (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Better? (Score:5, Informative)
Re:And Soon... (Score:5, Informative)
With the project 'PlayFair' [slashdot.org], the project admin never submitted a counter-claim...and hence the project was never restored.
BTW: We host many p2p projects on SF.NET today.
Pat-
Pat@sf.net
SourceForge.net
Re:From the FAQ: Not compatible with Kazaa. (Score:3, Informative)
I like Shareaza. It's swarming across multiple networks is a cool feature. But for BT downloads, it's not quite there yet, although it has potential.
For managing multiple BT downloads, the current app I use is Azureus [sourceforge.net]. Written in Java, but nonetheless a good application with a lot of features. And far, far faster at BT than Shareaza.
Re:Kudoes and all; but,... (Score:4, Informative)
No, it is not.
> VisualStudioProject
> ProjectType="Visual C++"
> Version="7.10"
That's the version of the environment.
Different hash methods (Score:3, Informative)
It also works with BitTorrent, to some degree. A lot of recent torrent making utilities have added support for Shareaza's method of inserting these hashes into the torrent itself (it's backwards compatible too), and using raza to download these torrents will let it search for and download from the other networks as well.
It can also do trackerless torrents, although that doesn't get a lot of use as yet. Download a torrent using raza and it'll send a search out on the G2 network for anybody else who happens to be downloading the same torrent, and they'll become BT sources for each other, no tracker needed.
Re:Better? (Score:2, Informative)
I don't Shareaza for download BitTorrent files. I just got used to the regular BitTorrent program. Also, I had to reinstall BitTorrent because Shareaza hijacked the settings and took over for it.
Re:Better? (Score:3, Informative)
Also, official versions of Shareaza do not allow zero uploads on the ED2K network because it's not allowed, and shareaza clients would be banned by other clients and probably by the servers as well.
Re:Complete w/ the spyware? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Developer Quitting (Score:3, Informative)
Of course I still have some strong views on which direction Shareaza should be going, and what kind of features I want to add - but now that can be part of a bigger picture, rather than the only picture. [emphasis mine]