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Old 11-01-2010, 11:00 PM   #1
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Linux P2P Program

Is there any other P2P File sharing program comparable to Limewire for use with Linux?
 
Old 11-01-2010, 11:03 PM   #2
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Frostwire

http://www.frostwire.com/

I personally like torrents and use Transmission.
 
Old 11-02-2010, 12:04 AM   #3
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You also have eDonky (ed2k) and gnutella. I personally use ed2k if I really have to, which I haven't used it for a long though, thanks to torrents.
 
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most distros have one or more of these in there repos
bittorent, ktorrent( gui for bittorrent), vuse ( vuse has some 100% legal downloads), Transmission

the donkey (edk) Amule

a vuse derivative oneswarm - a very secure f2f
 
  


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