Gtk-Gnutella

Gtk-Gnutella Rating

6.0 Gtk-Gnutella rated 11 times
ranked 97 out of 297

Gtk-Gnutella Works With

Linux

Gtk-Gnutella ScreenShots

Gtk-Gnutella

Gtk-Gnutella is a server/client for Gnutella. It runs on every Unix-like system which supports GTK+ (1.2 or above) and libxol. Gnome is not required. It is currently developed and tested under Linux (Debian 2.2) and is known to run at least on Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Darwin, Solaris, Tru64 UNIX (OSF/1), SGI IRIX, BeOS whereas CPU architectures include x86, AMD64, PowerPC, SPARC, MIPS.

What is Gnutella anyway?

Gnutella is a decentralized Peer to Peer information exchanging network. At the moment you can publish and download files of any kind using the Gnutella network. The modern Gnutella protocol is officially documented at the GDF wiki. For more information, visit the Wikipedia definition of Gnutella or the definition of gnutella on the infoAnarchy wiki.

A little about the Gtk-Gnutella program

Gtk-Gnutella is a reliable and efficient Gnutella client, supporting the latest Gnutella protocol, bandwidth limitation (both incoming and outgoing) traffic compression, and advanced search filters among other features.

Gnutella is a peer-based file-sharing protocol that allows a user running a Gnutella client to search for and download files from other Gnutella users, as well as share some files of his/her own.

Gtk-Gnutella offers all the extra features you expect from a modern client: persistent downloads, searches and filters, intuitive interface, upload statistics, queuing, and of course total control over many configuration parameters.

Some of the Gtk-Gnutella features include:

Share files on the gnutella network (Limewire, BearShare, Xolox, Gnucleus, Shareaza, Morpheus ...)

Compressed GNet connections

Simultaneous downloading of files from multiple hosts (swarming)

Passive searches

Searching by urn:sha1: and magnet:

Automatic aquisition of additional sources via download mesh and watching searches

Powerful filtering engine

Bandwidth management/limiting

A lot of settings

A lot of statistics

Gtk-Gnutella is compliant to:

HTTP/1.1

Gnutella 0.6 (Vendor Code GTKG and soon GNTD)

GNet compression

BYE packet

GWebCache Proposal

HUGE (Hash/URN Gnutella Extensions)

Ping/Pong reduction

PARQ (Passive/Active Remote Queueing)

PFSP (Partial File Sharing Protocol)

Vendor Messages

Ultrapeers

QRP (Query Routing Proposal)

Push Proxies

For more information you can always visit the homepage at http://gtk-gnutella.sourceforge.net/ and happy sharing!

Gtk-Gnutella Comments

02/16/2006
Auggie2k Top Moderpotater!	Seems to work well on Linux and has endless options and settings.
12/19/2005
cirilo	esta muy bien
11/16/2004
jimmy90 Zeropaid Regular	A very well respected Gnutella application
11/14/2004
louisgag Zeropaid Regular	It really is a good program for linux users, amazing speeds and simple yet very configurable!
09/29/2004
stevo32	wouldn't compile for me on FC1...anybody got any hints?
07/25/2004
magicalsmack	Gtk-gnutella Isn't much to look at, but it does what it was designed to do very well. Also, you will find very few corrupt(fake) files on the gnutella network as opposed to fasttrack. I've used nearly every p2p client since the original morpheus and gtk-gnutella is my favorite.
01/27/2004
myguitarzz	This file-sharing software is very minimal in features, yet is concise and well-defined. Although minimalistic, gtk-gnutella allows the user to download files with the least hassle. I've kept it running for days. The GUI interface is not up to par with other file-sharing software, however because of this, it does not take up a chunk of your CPU speed, or your computer memory. Way to go GTK-Gnutella! I love this! It's the best file-sharing program for Linux!!!