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p2p news / p2pnet: MUTE 0.5, a major upgrade of Jason Rohrer’s MUTE p2p file sharing application, is now available online.
“This is the first new MUTE release in more than a year, and it represents the largest step yet,” Rohrer told p2pnet. “New features include things that the community has been requesting for a long time, such as multi-source downloads and download queuing. This release also includes fixes for the various security issues that have been discovered in the past few months.”
He says he also managed to squeeze in a bit of innovation with a “friends” system that generates a human-readable mnemonic for each virtual address that users interact with.
“Example mnemonics generated by this new subsystem are LossMobs, TopPeeks, HanoiHeats, AmigoStays, GammaJim, and FrownQuad,” he says. “These are much more interesting, and much easier to remember, than 20-character strings of random digits hex digits like 7ED50862D4FFE0EF4F18616D98E786C711AF2497.”
From search results, users can pick particular mnemonics to mark as “friends” and then send search requests specifically to those friends in the future.
“If you search for ‘Mozart’ and get a few results back from GammaJim, you can mark Gamma as a friend and then send a more generic search, such as ‘mp3′, specifically to Gamma,” says Rohrer. “This will show you what other music that Gamma is sharing.”
Specific-user browsing in a file sharing app isn’t novel, “but MUTE 0.5 is the first system that I know of to support this kind of browsing in an anonymous environment,” he states.
Other major new features include multisource downloads and download queueing. As well, network scalability has been improved, and several security issues have been addressed.
See the change log for a complete list of changes.
Rohrer, who wrote the scripts for the p2pnet Stop-the-Blogsuit and Patti Santangelo’s Fight Goliath campaigns, is committed to developing free software as part of his life’s work and other projects have included ground-breaking p2p networks such as MUTE and konspire2b; web projects such as silk, token_word, and seedBlogs; thought experiments such as Monolith; and novel video games sauch as Transcend.
“All software I have written over the past five years has been freely distributed, and I have not gotten paid to make any of it,” he says.
If you want to help him to continue building applications such as MUTE, there’s a donations button here.
Nearly 750,000 people have so far downloaded MUTE, and more than 400 people grab a copy every day.
- Mac OS X 10.2 (Jaguar) 3.5 MiB version 0.5
- Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP 4.8 MiB version 0.5
(Windows users: try MFC MUTE, a nice Windows-only MUTE client) - Unix Source (notes) 708 KiB version 0.5
Language files are available.
The deadline for fixes to be incorporated into MUTE 0.5.1 is August 1, 2006.
Please see the bug reporting instructions.
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June 7th, 2006 at 7:20 am
free anorak included with every download.
June 7th, 2006 at 10:26 am
Unfortunately it doesn’t build on my system.