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A short description of Qtella - A Linux Client for Gnutella
Sharing files over decentralized networks (peer-to-peer) has
become very popular. The Gnutella network (Gnet) is one of these p2p
networks which is an open network. The advantage of a decentralized
network is that no server exists, which could be a single point of
failure. Instead, every client acts as client and server at the same
time. Due to this fact these clients are often called Servents. But
using decentralized networks has also disadvanteges. The
main drawback of missing central servers is that connecting to the
net takes longer.
Qtella is one of these servents for Linux for the Gnutella network with
many useful features.
Most of these features are taken from the comments and suggestions of
Qtella users. I want to thank all of these users.
Qtella is written in C++ and uses the Qt libraries. It is available
for Linux/Unix. Also a developer version for the Sharp Zaurus exists. A
Win32 version is currently in progress (an alpha version is already
available but it's very unstable).
The advantages of Qtella compared to other clients are: it
is very fast (due to the fact of using C++ instead of Java),
available for many platforms (due to the fact of using Qt) and
Qtella is neither Spyware nor Addware! It is published under the GPL,
so it is free.
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The following features are part of Qtella 0.4.0:
- display incoming searches
- logging of errors, warnings and infos
- rename files
- move downloads into different directories
- statistics of connections and session
- select different styles
- select different fonts
- show download status in download tab by colored balls
- block specified hosts
- fast connection mechanism
- multiple search
- continue interrupted downloads
- uploads
- limit number of downloads and uploads
- limit upload bandwidth
- separate unfinished downloads from finished ones
- download of several files at once
- test whether file allready exists
- identification of download server
- automatic retry if error, busy, closed
- auto connect list
- KDE integration
- save host list
- handle extended gnutella protocol
- status lines and statistics
- accecpt incoming connections
- download from firewalled hosts
- pong cache to reduce network traffic
- advanced search: "+" word must exist, "-" word must not exist
- resume interrupted downloads
A lot of other features are coming soon...
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