I don't like big fat GUI's either... but in some cases a GUI is just nice. I'm a big fan of FOX, personally. I think GTK and especially Qt are really pointlessly bloated and over-done. I can see how a command-line interface would work just fine for a p2p client, though... especially with a transparent aterm

But, anyway.... now i'm really confused about the whole FastTrack thing. I've been reading the giFT faq and i've come across some interesting info. It would appear that there is no FastTrack plugin for giFT. There once was, but no more since FastTrack changed their protocol. What they use is a clone of FastTrack, but a totally different network.

Here's a quote from their FAQ :

Is this not current info? Is there in fact a plugin for FastTrack or just the OpenFT "clone"?

Go to https://developer.berlios.de/projects/gift-fasttrack/

Xmule runs....as for working well.....I had it running for 7 hours and it downloaded 1 song. I'm trying not to complain after being w/o p2p apps for nearly 3 weeks.

I've heard great things about giFT....cept for it seems that one must have Stephen Hawking like knowledge to install it. Or maybe I'm too much of a noob. I'd kill to be on the fasttrack network again though.

trinity

Runs is a relative term.D/l'ed 1.6 gig with mldonkey in 15 hrs.That's the reason I got rid of xmule.
giFT ain't that bad to install with gentoo.There are also .deb's available.Don't know about the .rpm crowd.

crashmeister.

I read that xmule has a higher priority over mldonkey. or maybe that was edonkey. there are too many "donkey" p2p apps. .

I would kill for a giFT rpm. I'm going to have to ask Santa for it I suppose.

trinity

There is a lot of conspiration theories in the p2p world.You need someone to blame if the connections are too slow

If you agree on a target I'll tell you where to get a rpm for gift.

If I agree on a target, wha? lol. I need sleep, it's 5 a.m. and I've been at this since noon. I'm about to take a valium and pretend like I never heard of wine or kazaa. :P. Perhaps this will make more sense later.

trinity

an update on my status... if anyone cares

i got direct connect (dcgui) working. wow, that's almost too much for me. like IRC, so much to wade through. i guess i just have to get better at it.

i also got limewire installed and running, but it can't seem to connect to a network of any kind. i hit connect, and the connections screen just says "connecting..." and just stays like that, then disappears after a while and i'm still not connected. any idea why this might be? am i still missing something?

what connection to you have?

i'm not sure what you mean.

in the preferences there is a list of about 5 servers to connect to by default, but it can never connect.

i'm on DSL

as a newb, i found giFT (w/giFTcurs) the easiest to install and use of all of the donkey/mules, and there are hundreds of terrabytes of data available (or whatever is a PB ) with FastTrack + Gnutella plugins.

I use giFt with giFtCurs and it rules. Except i found myself disabling the gnutella plugin because that sucks. Opne Ft is good, and i'd like to try that fasttrack plugin. Btw gift is a an easy compile and so is giftcurs.

Pentabyte It's what, a thousand terabytes IIRC.

Cool

Installing MLdonkey in Mandrake is a matter of typing

urpmi mldonkey

in a console as a root (if you set up urpmi sources - to do that go to http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/ ).

It has plugins for FastTrack, OpenNap, DirectConnect, SoulSeek, Gnutella. However it likes your RAM a lot. It eats it for breakfast lunch and dinner. I have 128 MB of RAM and it's barely enough.

Try to compile it yourself.Don't know why but I never had much luck with any packaged mldonkey,