What happened to networks like eMule, WinMX, DC++, and so on? (programming.dev)

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[-] onlinepersona@programming.dev 7 points 2 years ago

MuWire? I thought that was dead. The main dev blew a gasket over something and archived it. I see it's out of archival now, but I do wonder what brought him back.

I didn't expect eMule and Gnutella to still be active, but probably didn't know because I'm on Linux and their clients are Windows only. Others have pointed out linux builds that I somehow hadn't found until now.

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[-] brickfrog@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 years ago

The dev shut down the github page in 2023 and later came back and re-activated it in 2024. Development is not overly active but there have been commits since then.

https://github.com/zlatinb/muwire/commits/master/

[-] swelter_spark@reddthat.com 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

So that's where people are getting these beta versions newer than mine. I've seen them on the network but I didn't know if they were legit.

[-] swelter_spark@reddthat.com 3 points 2 years ago

By MuWire, I meant the network, not the software. I wasn't aware it was being developed again, actually. Maybe the current political climate made the dev feel like his work was needed again. The network never died. I use Linux too. eMule and Gnutella both have Linux clients, but availability might vary from one distro to another. On openSuse Tumbleweed, we have aMule and GTK-Gnutella. Based on the IP addresses I see, they seem more popular in Europe than in the US.

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