LimeWire Adds Ubuntu Support
Written by Ernesto on May 02, 2007The popular filesharing application LimeWire released Debian packages for Ubuntu. The latest LimeWire release is tested on Ubuntu Edgy and Kubuntu Edgy/Feisty, and both the free and pro versions are available for download.
Up until today LimeWire was only available as an .rpm package. Unfortunately these packages didn’t work on the latest Ubuntu versions without having to apply a workaround. Luckily, the LimeWire developers didn’t sit still, and today they release a new version that fully supports Ubuntu.
On the LimeWire Blog we read: “With several developers using Kubuntu on their development workstations we thought it was about time to officially support Ubuntu and provide packages for the growing Ubuntu user community.”
LimeWire is by far the most installed filesharing application. LimeWire is installed on 18.3% of all Windows PCs according to a report from Digital Music News, runner-up eDonkey is only installed on 3.3% of PCs. The market share of LimeWire is only expected to grow now it’s available to the ever growing Ubuntu community.
The latest LimeWire Beta for Ubuntu can be found over here.
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Why use limewire when you have emule?
Or even better Utorrent/Azureus
[quote comment="95641"]Why use limewire when you have emule?
Or even better Utorrent/Azureus[/quote]
eMule is:
1.) only for Windows
2.) only for ed2k networks. in fact, now that I look at Limewire’s wikipedia entry, it doesn’t even support ed2k, so the two programs are unrelated.
IMO the gnutella networks are better than ed2k - never got spam/suspucious search results from G1/G2 networks… I just hope Shareaza gets to the 2.3 version soon! :)
Theres an open source version of limewire called ‘frostwire’ ive been using it for a while and works great.
http://www.frostwire.com/
no one smart enough to use ubuntu would be dumb enough to use limewire the way it is now
frostwire ftw!
[quote comment="95723"]no one smart enough to use ubuntu would be dumb enough to use limewire the way it is now[/quote]
Yeah, because Ubuntu users tend to be as versed as Mac users…
[quote comment="95711"]Theres an open source version of limewire called ‘frostwire’ ive been using it for a while and works great.
http://www.frostwire.com//quote
Limewire IS open source DOH!!!
IM HAVING PROBLEMS WITH MY LIME WIRE GETTIG CONNECTED
I Think,İt is very nice information…
Hitchhiker Nation
frostwire is the same as limewire pro except its free, where as with limewire if you want the ‘pro’ stuff you will have to buy it or compile it yourself :)
thk u so so much. atleast somebody cares to create software for Ubuntu OS also, along with Win and Mac.
I’m breaking my head b’coz Nokia PC suite is not available for Ubuntu.
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