User:James Connolly

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Hello, I am the chief developer of Gnutizen, have made minor contributions to other Gnutella projects and am interested in p2p in general.

p2p is done on a basis of a good idea well implemented (the program), as well as a large user base (the data). It is hoped that the first would be followed by the second, and with various migrations of usage, it to some extent is. Here are my opinions on current clients:

Gnutella, especially Limewire - I began using Gnutella when it came out in the wake of Napster filtering. I used it for a while, but when KaZaa came out I found FastTrack was better for small files (<10 MB) for a long time. Over the past few months I feel that is no longer the case, Limewire is at least equal in terms of good hits back for queries, with perhaps even faster download times.

KaZaa is also closed source and spyware-ridden, and KaZaA Lite is possibly illegal, comes out on an irregular basis and from an unknown and untrustworthy source. Limewire the client is partially open, Gnutella the protocol is for now fairly open, and there are GPL servents (server/clients) for Gnutella, including my own, Gnutizen.

BitTorrent, especially Azureus - This is a great p2p network for sharing large files. The original BitTorrent seems more a proof-of-concept, I prefer the Azureus GUI for BitTorrent, although I suspect it has some sort of memory leak. I also feel torrents lead to too much centralization, this is a p2p network minus a search feature. I previously used eMule for large files but BitTorrent is much, much faster (I should note that the official versions of the ed2k network - eDonkey and Overnet are two of the most spyware-infested junk I've yet to see - install them at your peril).