| MLDonkey | |
|---|---|
| Initial release | late 2001 |
| Stable release | 2.9.6 (2008-08-05) [+/−] |
| Preview release | none ( ) [+/−] |
| Written in | Objective Caml, with some C and Assembly |
| OS | Cross-platform |
| Available in | ? |
| Type | P2P File sharing |
| License | GPL |
| Website | mldonkey.sourceforge.net |
MLDonkey is an open source, free software multi-network peer-to-peer application. It is also the name of the peer-to-peer overlay network that the MLDonkey uses. Originally a Linux client for the eDonkey protocol, it now runs on many flavors of Unix-like, Mac OS X, Windows and MorphOS and supports numerous peer-to-peer protocols. It is written in Objective Caml, with some C and even some Assembly parts.
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Development of the software began in late 2001. The original developer of MLDonkey is Fabrice Le Fessant from INRIA.
Features of MLdonkey core:
From release 2.9.0 on, support for Gnutella and G2 are no longer compiled in by default; however, it is still possible to compile it in by making the appropriate setting in the configuration file[1].
Written in the Ocaml programming language and licensed under the GPL, the application separates the user interface (which can be a web browser, telnet, or a third-party GUI application) and the code that interacts with the peer-to-peer networks.
MLDonkey is able to connect to different networks simultaneously and it's also able to download one file from several networks at the same moment. MLDonkey runs in a terminal session and does not require a GUI environment, saving memory and processing resources. Everything is controlled by editable ini-files, or in a more user friendly fashion through the use of separate user interfaces (local or remote).
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