File Sharing with Apollon and GiFT

OLYMPIAN EXCHANGE

Article from Issue 55/2005
Author(s):

The operators of the popular Internet-based file

sharing network, Kazaa, only provide software for

Windows systems, but the GiFT project brings

Kazaa support to Linux.

Kazaa [1], the popular Internetbased

file sharing network, has

the biggest user-base and offers

its users the widest range of services. So

far, Kazaa has owed its popularity to

Windows users – possibly due to the

prominence of illegal copies of expensive

software packages, which are useless

to most Linux users. Additionally,

Kazaa makes it difficult for the Linux

community to join the network, as the

peer-to-peer software Kazaa provides is

restricted to Microsoft operating systems.

The GiFT project [2] now has a Linuxbased

plugin for users who want to

share files worldwide via Kazaa. The

plugin implements the Fasttrack protocol

used by Kazaa and

additionally supports

the Gnutella [3] file

sharing network. At the

same time, OpenFasttrack

provides an alternative

to Kazaa. There

is another plugin for

the Ares network [4],

and the GiFT homepage

also refers to plugins

for Napster [5],

Soulseek [6] and EDonkey

[7], which are

incomplete or no

longer support the current

version. Box 1 describes how to add

plugins.

Buy this article as PDF

Download Article PDF now with Express Checkout
Price $2.95
(incl. VAT)

Buy Linux Magazine

SINGLE ISSUES
Print Issues
Digital Issues
SUBSCRIPTIONS
Print Subscriptions
Digital Subscriptions

Related content

  • KlamAV

    Linux may not be as virus-ready as Windows, but who wants to harbor pointless malware? Now you can hunt for viruses with KDE's KlamAV, a desktop front-end for the ClamAV Open Source virus protection system.

    more »
  • Netfilter L7

    If you need a tool for filtering protocols that doesn’t depend on the port, try L7, an IPTables patch that operates through regular expressions.

    more »
  • MLDonkey

    The multi-network MLDonkey client gives users access to all the major file sharing networks. We’ll show you how to set up MLDonkey and how you can control the MLDonkey client with a KDE front end called KMLDonkey.

    more »
  • maddog's Doghouse

    Using your time to introduce someone to Linux can enrich their world and the free software community – and improve your own understanding in the process.

    more »
  • First Look at TonidoPlug
    more »
comments powered by Disqus
Subscribe to our Linux Newsletters
Find Linux and Open Source Jobs
Subscribe to our ADMIN Newsletters

Support Our Work

Linux Magazine content is made possible with support from readers like you. Please consider contributing when you’ve found an article to be beneficial.

Learn More

News

Tag Cloud

Administration Community Desktop Events Hardware Linux Mobile Programming Security Software Ubuntu Web Development Windows free software open source