Why Gnutella Can't Scale. No, Really

[Greg Broiles]

On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 10:36:31AM -0800, Ray Dillinger wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Adam Back wrote:
> 
> >It may be that Napster will continue in the form of the open napster
> >clones, even if Napster the company is prevented.  Anyone can start
> >napster servers at this point.  
> 
> I don't know if it implements exactly the same protocol, but 
> SuSE 7.1 (released on the 12th of February, which is an interesting 
> date considering the timing of the napster ruling) contains something 
> called "gnapster". 
> 
> check http://www.suse.com.
> 
> I haven't downloaded it yet; I'll see what it is next time I'm 
> building a new box.

It's a GTK/Gnome Napster client - see <http://freshmeat.net/projects/gnapster/>
for more. It's been around for a few months at least - it seems to run
fine under FreeBSD, too. 

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