Gtk-gnutella

gtk-gnutella is an open-source unix servent for the Gnutella network, based on the GTK toolkit.

Features

gtk-gnutella supports a large range of the features of modern Gnutella clients including:

• 0.6 Gnutella Protocol (Gnet)
• Gnet traffic compression
• Gnet extensions such as HUGE, BYE and other vendor packets
• Download Swarming
• PARQ (Passive/Active Remote Queueing)
• Swarming (downloading different bits of the file from multiple servents)
• PFSP (Partial File Sharing Protocol) - allows partial downloads to be shared, a little like BitTorrent

History

gtk-gnutella was originally written as a visual clone (i.e. to look like) the original Nullsoft Gnutella client. The original author Yann Grossel stopped working on the client in early 2001. After a while a new maintainer took over, and the client has been in active development ever since.

External links

• gtk-gnutella homepage
• IRC: #gtk-gnutella on freenode