File Sharing: Decentralizing, Open-Source Fasttrack

Posted by timothy on Tuesday September 18, 2001 @07:43PM from the finding-obscurities dept.

Eloquence writes: "I've written a comparison of current file sharing software; what's interesting is that the original centralized indexing concepts are losing ground because of filters, and most relevant file sharing systems by now use at least a server-network, or a completely decentralized architecture. Unfortunately, most networks are proprietary, but at least there is now an open-source client to access the most popular network, Fasttrack's Kazaa/Morpheus, which was originally only accessible under Windows (around 500,000 users online at any time)."

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Re:swap nut by grendel20 · 2001-09-18 20:06 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I think the article left out a bunch o' programs, like swapoo, and a few others i can't think of off hand... but that's me just being too, oh, i can't even think of teh word, its too late. blarg. long live direct connect, and winmx