XMule

Infobox_Software
name = xMule



caption =
developer = xMule team
latest_release_version = 1.13.7 RC1
latest_release_date = release date and age|2006|09|11
operating_system = Cross-platform
genre = peer-to-peer file sharing
license = GNU General Public License
website = [http://www.xmule.ws/ www.xmule.ws]

xMule — the X11 Mule — is a client for the eDonkey peer-to-peer file sharing network, intended to bring it to virtually all the major Unix platforms, with a particular emphasis on Linux.

xMule is a fork of the lMule client, which itself was originally a Linux-only port of the eMule client. Due to severe differences between the developers, a new fork was created with the aMule project on August 18 2003; the day that one of xMule's maintainers, Ted R. Smith, was sued by the Motion Picture Association of America. Fact|date=February 2007

xMule has since suffered from negative publicity through anonymous comments on software review sites such as GnomeFiles and Zeropaid, some of them even suggesting that the xMule project has stopped (while promoting aMule). [cite web | url = http://gnomefiles.org/comment.php?soft_id=462 | title = GnomeFiles posts | accessdate = 2006-07-23 ] [cite web | title = xMule | url = http://www.zeropaid.com/xmule/ | work = Zeropaid | accessdate = 2006-07-23 ] It should be noted though that the official aMule page solely states that "relations between the two projects are sadly in a rather sorry state", whereas xMule's site contains an extensive manifesto on the issue, which goes as far as drawing comparisons to the different coding philosophies behind Internet Explorer and Mozilla. [cite web | url = http://www.amule.org/wiki/index.php/XMule | title = xMule | work = AMule Project wiki | accessdate = 2006-07-23 ] [cite web | url = http://www.xmule.ws/phpnuke/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=2 | title = The Coding Philosophies of xMule vs aMule | accessdate = 2006-07-23 | work = xMule ]

Trivia

The name xMule was created as the new official name for the lMule project when it was first ported to FreeBSD in early May 2003 and the maintainers effectively lost control of the lMule website. [http://www.xmule.ws/lmuleorg_takeover.txt] [http://lmule.sourceforge.net/news.php]

References

External links

* [http://www.xmule.ws/ xMule project page]
* [http://freshmeat.net/projects/xmule Freshmeat download page]