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Curiously enough, SUSE Linux includes this package, but not the core MLDonkey program without which KMLDonkey cannot function.Īs a would-be KMLDonkey user, you must first go to the MLDonkey website () to download the "core" package and the server lists. KMLDonkey is the GUI front for this client. It began as a client for the eDonkey2000 network, now known as the Overnet, but now supports (to varying degrees) the Gnutella and FastTrack networks. MLDonkey is a multi-network P2P client, which wants to work with all file sharers the world over. They are both a little troublesome to work, but you should be able to avoid some of the pitfalls with this guide. KMLDonkey is the KDE-based GUI for MLDonkey, a traditional P2P client that is looking for interoperability with several of these networks. If your client finds another copy of the file on another, faster computer, it will start a new download, but this can mean your hard drive begins to fill up with a bunch of partial downloads of the same file. The downside of this model relative to BitTorrent is that you're a prisoner of your partner's connection: No matter how fast your broadband or LAN is, if the person you're sharing with has a flaky dial-up that is only online an hour a day, that's the connection you get. The good thing about the system is that no matter what you're looking for, chances are someone on your network has it. The user selects one copy from the list, and the client downloads the file from the selected computer. The client then displays a list of matching files and a little bit of information about the computer the file is on (mainly download speed).
The client connects to the P2P network and searches for the requested file among the shared directories of computers online at that moment. What makes them similar to Napster is the user's side of the process.Ī user goes online to locate and download a copy of a file (for example, an MP3 music file). Gnutella, eDonkey/Overnet, and FastTrack (aka KaZaa) are perhaps the best known of the file-sharing networks to rise since Napster's fall. While recording industry legal attacks against the original Napster application and network have transformed the original concept, there are still many applications and file-sharing networks that have sprung up to meet consumer demands, especially for electronic music files. Some of these clients are not in the 64-bit SUSE Linux distribution. SUSE Linux includes several clients that support each of these styles, which you will learn about in the following section. Whether (and how) you choose to use these tools (as with all the other tools mentioned in this book) is entirely up to you. We note that, as of this writing, 6 of the top 10 downloads at the Sourceforge open-source development center () are file-sharing clients. In this book, we're not going to examine the legal and moral questions of P2P file sharing. At the same time, be aware that any file can be easily renamed and shared, so that the innocent-looking wav sound effect you pick up may be replaced by an active virus. Note that all types of files can and do circulate on file-sharing networks, including perfectly legal open-source software. The BitTorrent model, where large files or packages are downloaded faster by allowing bits to come from several sources and combining them at the end. The traditional, Napster-style model, where files are uploaded and downloaded from one computer to another. Two general types of file-sharing protocols exist:
As long as Linux serves the "Information wants to be free" crowd (which will be forever), there will be Linux P2P tools. As controversial as it is popular, peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing is unlikely to go away anytime soon.
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