BearShare is one of a few clients that have
sprung up from the
Gnutella network. Since
Gnutella is a
flawed program (as many are), to keep the network stable and
healthy, people who are in "control" of the network (
Clip2 and others) have deprecated the original
Gnutella client, and have moved on to others such as
BearShare,
LimeWire,
Gnotella, and the like.
Bearshare is the greatest of the
Win32 clients, due to its rich feature set, and
native executable property. It manages
traffic and
hits well, and does a lot to keep the
network flowing.
It has many features that make sure that it is
superior to
Gnutella, such as a notification when a new
BearShare is available,
Quality of Service meters, better
searching, etc.
Updates to the distributed network clients (such as BearShare) and relying upon an agreed upon
standard are crucial to the
survival of the
network. Without such
diligent improvement,
bugs in
older versions will cause the
death of the
scalability of the
network as we know it.
The bearshare website is:
http://www.bearshare.com