May 15th, 2004 somewhere in Estonia. A lone developer decided to try and work on a p2p client himself. Formerly having worked on other clients, such as aMule, LMule, xMule and Sharedeamon, he is no stranger to P2P. Now its time for something new. Hydranode strives to be a multi network application that runs on many different platforms.
Alo Sarv, aka Madcat is the developer of what today stands as Hydranode v0.1 on the Hydranode Home page. Its running on Windows, Linux and on MacOSX all the same. The core of it runs as a stand alone client. To work with it, the user can currently use telnet to access the core and send commands. With the current test versions, that works flawlessly. Later versions will include a graphical user interface that will make this task a lot easier for the user. Versions for windows will include a “all-in-one” package, where the user wont see the workings as he can now, and use the client like he would Emule or Azureus now.
So what can you do, besides run it and connect your telnet client to it? Its first supported network is the eDonkey network and does that pretty well. You can search on servers you are connected to, it will run downloads, complete them and save them locally. A cancel command is also included, where the whole fancy already ends. It is a basic and very early version, but it does what it is supposed to do, and does so well.
The release of the 0.1 version called for a short interview with Alo Sarv himself.
Full story and interview can be found here
