Gnucleus

Gnucleas - An open-source no-spyware gnutella client. Gnucleus was designed for the most basic computer user, easy install, quick downloads and best of all Gnucleus is not owned by a large company like the others. Gnucleus is full of interesting features and extras, all the standard stuff plus more! Gnucleus was the beginning of a few open-source Gnutella related projects (GWebCache, GnucDNA, GnucNS). Gnucleus itself is a Windows application for accessing the Gnutella and G2 networks.

One of the first released after the introduction of Gnutella in 2000 by Nullsoft. It is also the first client to fully support the G2 network, the future of open protocol P2P. The latest builds of Gnucleus can be found on the download page and also through the auto-update system inside the program. Currently most of the development effort is going into the GnucDNA (the core of Gnucleus) rather than the Gnucleus interface itself. Downloading the Gnucleus client from this site will always give you the latest version of the core and full support for all of its features.

Some of the features of the Gnucleus program:

Open Source - The code that makes this program is free! Anyone who wants to is free to modify my program and make their own versions. The advantage of open-soure is that people can also find problems in the code and fix it themselves without waiting for me to fix it for them. This gives you, the user, confidence that gnucleus will never become 'out of date', even if I am no longer able to work on this project someone can always come out with new versions.

Simple and Powerful - Keep it simple, stupid. Gnucleus is created with the mind set that first time users should be able to open the program and get files immediately. To achive this kind of usablility I did not dumb down the program in any way. Advanced features are still fully accessible to the user, but they will only be found and understood by advanced users. Over time as a users become experienced and appreciates the kind of power that they have over the program.

Mulitple Windows - One of the most distinguishing features of Gnucleus is that it is not just one big dialog with tabs seperating different parts of the program. Gnucleus has sub-windows inside itself so that users can observe different aspects of the program simultaneously. Such as watching downloads progress while chatting with a friend, or performing an unlimited number of searches at the same time.

Not Evil - Unlike many file sharing systems, Gnucleus is not run by a company. This project has been active for over a year and no one has made a dime of it. We do not want your money, we want your support in development and making this program something great. Few windows programs are open-source, this is one of the few, because of that it is impossible for us to ever charge you for this program or future versions. I make this program out of my need for a honest file sharing system.

The system requirements of the Gnucleas program are:

A Windows Operating System

An active internet connection

A recommended 32MB of RAM

A recommended 600Mhz CPU

A least 20MB of free HD space

Gnucleus Comments

06/14/2006
memyselfandiemil Zeropaid Member	can someone please tell me why I cannot connect to gnucleus
03/30/2006
heliozoa Zeropaid Regular	Gnucleus is very good :D It's simple and clean. It supports Gnutella&G2 well - at least Morpheus and others use Gnucleus to handle Gnutella. You can search more, so you get tons, more than Lime/Bear get (you can only search once there). It is not proprietary, so it doesnt call home, control you, no malware (ad/spy/...) and is also truly decentralized. I wonder why so few people use it. Although it is simple, many noobs are afraid because it doesnt include bundled crap or something. So it might be a bit complicating? Note: If you cant connect properly, you might need bootstrap IP address for Gnutella (as it doesnt rely an servers). You can enter them simple, also Gnucleus tried to get them from Webcaches. I recommend to try it out! 0% hidden crap/spyware. Uninstall easy. Like nothing to loose.
02/15/2006
Bobster888 Zeropaid Member	I LOve it
01/01/2006
johnnygnote Zeropaid Member	Been using Nuclus with no prbs for some time, sudenly there are errors ans the ware is shutting down. THEY'RE HERE!!!!!!!
12/11/2005
nj54vbn	sounds rubish so i diddent even bother downloading it
09/07/2005
tac91au	my balls were itching while i was about to download this so i didnt even bother.
07/12/2005
KoolGuy Banned	It has NO spyware and no more security risks than the other P2P programs, SpySweeper and Ad-Aware says it's clean. Spybot also detected nothing. Spyware Doctor is dectecting false positives.
07/12/2005
Julian500	IT Has Highrisk and severe spyware get Spyware Doctor And DO A SCAN SEE WHAT SEVERE AND HIGH Risk Stuff u would find
07/09/2005
littlebits Zeropaid Regular	This program is complelely clean of all adware, spyware and malware, but if you use Microsoft AntiSpyware it will falsely detect the whole program because of the GnucDNA. Just ignore it.
07/07/2005
Julian500	I don't recomend this it has plenty of severe and high risk spyware Microsoft anti spyware dosn't really detect much of it but spyware doctor DO NOT DOWNLOAD UNLESS U WANT SOME ADWARE SPYWAREOR TROJAN