Could someone enlighten me as to why a distributed filesharing utility that's not distributed from a central source aka debian.org or sourceforge.net is such an advantage, there's a lot of garbage floating around the net these days and some of it can damage you. so why not share the filtering from a trusted central source.
<html><head><title>html sig</title></head><body><div style="font:sans-serif; font-size:72pt;line-height:84pt;color:blue1;"><ul><li>sexy is good</li><li> linux is good</li><li>qed: linux is sexy</li></ul><hr><hr><hr><hr><hr><hr> <a href="http://www.efn.org/~laprice";>laprice at efn dot org</a></body></html> On Sun, 30 Sep 2001, Seth Cohn wrote: > > What's a good gnutella client? I gave Limewire a try, but it seemed > > to freeze a lot. > > One word: Java > > > Also, can I use gnutella behind a firewall? Is anyone doing this? > > Limewire on windows seems to work behind the firewall, but I can't > > seem to get connects on my linux box behind the same firewall. > > Yes, you can. However, you will be unable to connect to anyone behind > a firewall also. (It's the pushme-pullyou effect... neither of you can get > the other to make the inital connection). That should be true under windows > also. I believe using a 3rd party reflector can make it work... > > There are lots of good gnutella clients... for all platforms... but I > haven't used them in a while, so no recommendations from me. > > Seth > > > Seth >
