AquaLime 299

[MamiyaOtaru]

The penultimate release of AquaLime is finished up and hopefully free of showstoppers.

New features (either to this version, or things LimeWire doesn't have): Repeat search without losing your old results. Skins (optional). Import Shareaza security files. Flags in the connection tab (like Bearshare used to have). Old school LimeWire layout (though with rearranged tabs). Block multiple hosts with a single click.

It's still gnutella, so don't expect miracles from it. At least it has no ads.

http://MamiyaOtaru.mangatoanime.com

[Sockfulloflove]

any clue when limewire 3.0 will come out? so then aqualime 3.0 comes out.

[MamiyaOtaru]

unless they start doing 2.9.9.9.9, I would imagine "soon."
/me breathes a sigh of relief

[method77]

I would never use this or any other gnutella client BUT...

a big thank you to MamiyaOtaru and other people like him that bring us spyware free programs. Good job!

[MamiyaOtaru]

****, the links on my homepage were wrong. they were pointing to version 286b still. They are fixed now, but just for good measure, here they are
http://www.infosprite.com/aqualime/dl/AquaLime299.zip
http://www.infosprite.com/aqualime/dl/AquaLime299.exe

Method, thanks for your kind words. I'm just happy to give people more of a choice.

[endersgame21]

Yeah, I would never use gnutella either but I as I am sure many others appreciate what you are doing MamiyaOtaru. It is people like you that make the filesharing experience ten times better.

[Sockfulloflove]

GUESS hasn't been implemented yet, has it?

[Evil_Dweller_01]

Well.. according to some it HAS been implemented.. although I tested aqualime 2.99 and there was no difference between that and normal gnutella..

I went to try Swapper and GUESS kicked ass!

[MamiyaOtaru]

I don't think limewire is going to implement GUESS. They would have by now but decided it wasn't going to work, so they spentmonths on something else, which was that long pause between 286 and 292.. something like that.

I'll have to give Swapper a try

[John W. Lindh]

LimeWire wasted about three months with GUESS, but they are finally coming around. Using a high-outdegree network they can decrease the average reply path and use selective querying to reduce the traffic.

Next version is probably going to implement compression in LimeWire.

[Crazy Horse]

Good Job Mamiya. Thanx for the choices and the current info.

[Evil_Dweller_01]

Originally posted by John W. Lindh
LimeWire wasted about three months with GUESS, but they are finally coming around. Using a high-outdegree network they can decrease the average reply path and use selective querying to reduce the traffic.

Next version is probably going to implement compression in LimeWire.

This is pissing me off..
They waste months on something they give up at later on and they don't improve the shit gnutella network at all! They plan but they don't do!
When the hell is a new network like GUESS going to come out? Wasn't it supposed to be 3.0?
We're at 2.9.8...

[dr. damn]

Originally posted by Evil_Dweller_01
This is pissing me off..
They waste months on something they give up at later on and they don't improve the shit gnutella network at all! They plan but they don't do!
When the hell is a new network like GUESS going to come out? Wasn't it supposed to be 3.0?
We're at 2.9.8...

Gnutella is a distributed network. Until every single node supports GUESS, it's not going to be implemented entirely.

[isus]

Originally posted by dr. damn
Gnutella is a distributed network. Until every single node supports GUESS, it's not going to be implemented entirely.

lol, with all the old as hell, not updated clients for gnutella... it will never be implemented entirely :-P

[John W. Lindh]

You're right, it's not going to be implemented entirely. LimeWire chose not to use the original GUESS at all. But they are likely to use UDP in 3.0 anyway (just for transmitting search results however - not for sending search packets).