Again about status of p2p-software in Fedora.

Casey Dahlin cjdahlin at ncsu.edu
Fri Feb 29 19:06:11 UTC 2008


Callum Lerwick wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-02-29 at 13:46 +0300, Peter Lemenkov wrote:
>   
>> Hello All!
>> Why there is no any eMule/eDonkey software titles in Fedora main
>> repository while there are number of torrent-related ones? What's the
>> difference between them?
>>     
>
> The difference is Bittorrent is designed in a way to enable controlled,
> legitimate use. Whereas eDonkey and others are generally wild
> uncontrollable distributed systems, that make it difficult to completely
> divorce yourself from other people's illicit traffic. Even so:
>
> $ yum search edonkey
> ed2k_hash-gui.i386 : Edonkey 2000 file hash calculator with FLTK GUI
> ed2k_hash.i386 : Edonkey 2000 file hash calculator
> ed2k_hash-gui.i386 : Edonkey 2000 file hash calculator with FLTK GUI
> ed2k_hash.i386 : Edonkey 2000 file hash calculator
> amule.i386 : File sharing client compatible with eDonkey
>
>   
Sure those came from us and not livna or elsewhere?

I know I installed mldonkey by rpm at one point, but not sure where it 
came from.

--CJD




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