File Sharing with Apollon and GiFT
OLYMPIAN EXCHANGE
Author(s): CARSTEN SCHNOBER
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.
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