What
is eDonkey?
At dawn of May 13th 2002 a guy called Merkur was
dissatisfied with the original eDonkey2000 client
and was convinced he could do better. So he did.
He gathered other developers around him, and eDonkey
Project was born. Their aim was to put the client
back on track where eDonkey had been famous before,
adding tons of new features and a nice GUI. They
couldn't imagine what impact this decision would
have...
As of today, eDonkey is one of the biggest and
most reliable peer-to-peer file sharing clients
around the world. Thanks to it's open source policy
many developers are able to contribute to the
project, making the network more efficient with
each release.
What does eDonkey mean?
The name "eDonkey" comes from an animal
called "Mule" which is somehow similar
to a donkey ;)
How often is eDonkey updated?
eDonkey is not updated regularly, but at the moment
the frequencies are between 1 and 3 months. Don't
take this for guaranteed. :)
Download
eDonkey
About P2P
A peer-to-peer (or P2P) computer network is a network
that relies on the computing power and bandwidth
of the participants in the network rather than concentrating
it in a relatively low number of servers. P2P networks
are typically used for connecting nodes via largely
ad hoc connections. Such networks are useful for
many purposes. Sharing content files (see file sharing)
containing audio, video, data or anything in digital
format is very common, and realtime data, such as
telephony traffic, is also passed using P2P technology.
A pure peer-to-peer network does not have the
notion of clients or servers, but only equal peer
nodes that simultaneously function as both "clients"
and "servers" to the other nodes on
the network. This model of network arrangement
differs from the client-server model where communication
is usually to and from a central server. A typical
example for a non peer-to-peer file transfer is
an FTP server where the client and server programs
are quite distinct, and the clients initiate the
download/uploads and the servers react to and
satisfy these requests.
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