Finally the windows installer is ready, we’ll be testing and fixing any problems you might come across during the day, once the installer has been stabilized we’ll update the official home page for everyone to download.
We remind you that this FrostWire version supports Torrent Downloads, and features Chat Community.
Please give us your feedback here on the blog.
We remind you that FrostWire is absolutely FREE, if you pay for it you’ve been the victim of a scam.
As promised, here’s the pre-beta installer for Mac.
Windows users, just hold on a little more, we’re still fixing a few details, and soon we’ll have a final release on the 3 platforms.
Mac Users, let’s hope you can give us some feedback.
Remember to go to Preferences -> Chat and change your Chat nick name.
Yes, it’s finally ready for Linux users. Windows and Mac Users, installers are coming out pretty soon.
In the meantime, we want Ubuntu users to take it for a spin and give us some feedback, you can leave your comments here on the blog or on the forums
Using bittorrent has never been easier in Linux, you can just drag the torrent files to the FrostWire window, or you can open directly an URL.
Download frostwire-4.13.1.deb here
(The .deb has been Updated like 4 times today, make sure your .deb file can produce this MD5 hash)
How to Install FrostWire 4.13.1 in Ubuntu or Debian based distro
You must have super user privileges, and the Sun’s JRE.
(See HOWTO install the JRE after this)
Then just do this with the .deb file you just downloaded:
sudo dpkg -i frostwire-4.13.1.i586.deb
That’s it. (Yes, this will work with AMD too, it was packaged on an AMD64!)
Now look for FrostWire on your Internet Menu, or Fire it up from a Console or from Alt+F2 by typing frostwire
How to install Java with apt-get
NOTE: If you don’t have Sun’s JRE, FrostWire won’t work.
Make sure your /etc/apt/sources.list has the multiverse enabled:
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu edgy multiverse
Then do:
sudo apt-get install sun-java5-jre
Enjoy, and send your comments to this thread on the forum.
By Luis Ramirez, Caracas, Venezuela
www.elblogo.com
Submitted on Nov. 8th 2006, 4:30pm
What do you think?
I think we might have a winner already.
As we come closer to our next release, we know FrostWire still doesn’t have an iconic logo which people can easily identify.
After months of looking for an image, we came across a few pictures of Frozen Barbed Wires.
We think a simple 2D logo, much in the style of napster (easy to print and easy to recognize anywhere) is what we need stylewise.
Picture this:
or this:
(these images are JUST TO ILLUSTRATE that we want a Barbed Wire, or Frozen Barbed Wire [if its possible to illustrate this] as our Logo, may the best Frozen Barbed Wire illustration win)
with this style:
If you’re interested in getting the $50, you’ll need to have a paypal account so we can pay you the bounty.
If you don’t care about the money you can still submit your sketches.
Please submit your proposals either on the official FrostWire Forum or here.
The winner will have his name and a link to his portfolio website (if he/she has any) on the FrostWire credits, and we’ll make a lot of fuss about the new logo, that’s for sure.
WARNING: No 3D logos please. And If you do something in 3D don’t exagerate, think of how easy would it be to print this logo anywhere. Would it be as easy to print as the Napster Logo? Think simple, containable within a circle or squared area so that we can place it anywhere next to the FrostWire word. If your logo has no letters much better, we want to be able to be identified without any letters.
Or something along the lines of a real Frozen Wire?
I was thinking about making a 2D logo, with an Electric Post and Frozen Wires…
Can anyone suggest something, we’d like to hear the community’s ideas.
Check out the list programs that Automatix easily installs to your Ubuntu Linux, yes, you guessed it, FrostWire has been included on that list!!!
We found out about it through this article that linked to us.
And What’s Automatix?
Automatix is a graphical interface for automating the installation of the most commonly requested applications in Ubuntu linux.
So did we catch your attention with her eyes?
(Hail the Creative Commons License, we got this one from Flickr.com)
Have no friends? Don’t feel like going out? Wanna listen to something different while riding on that train to work? Don’t miss this one, listening to this episode will be like hanging out with your new geek coffee-hyper friends.
This time we come on mp4 format, we warn you… this is a long episode, but a fun one, I bet we’ll get a laugh or two from you, and all the people around you on the subway will look at you like you’re crazy, so wait no more, suscribe to our iTunes feed if you haven’t already, or just do a straight download and listen to this episode wherever you want, whenever you want.
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Great indie music by Wolf Parade check them out! The incredibly awesome song we played is “I’ll Believe in Anythingâ€
So now you see why we had that “Suscribe to iTunes†button all along…
Welcome to our first Podcast Episode, on this edition we talk about:
Special greetings to Charles Marseille who made the first donation ever of $100!!!.
We’ll make excellent use of this contribution, Thanks!
Greetings to all our users in Europe, specially in Paris, London and Amsterdam, thanks for the support.
On this episode music Creative Commons music from Opsound.org, Manolocamp.net, and Free Music from download.com, by Artists:
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Also, we’ve included something we’ve been working on for about two weeks, a chatroom client (and server) for you. It runs on our very own irc server at:
irc.peercommons.net
Feel free to enter the chatroom using the webpage applet (courtesy of our very own alkalinex) or your favorite IRC client to jump in and have fun with other FrostWire users. It’s a great way to get quick answers to your doubts, technical questions and meet people from all over the world, you should give it a try now!
As a geek note, we’re proud to say that our IRC server runs on a very humble machine and all the magic happens thanks to Linux Debian, it’s amazing what Debian can do with 200Mhz of CPU and only 32mbs of ram. Saying this, we remind you donations are more than welcome if you want to help us support this project, we’ll be able to do a lot more with better hardware.
Now that the site is on its way, we’ll be working on internationalization to help people all over the world use FrostWire, also now that our repository is finally working on subversion we’ll start working much more on improvements to the software.
Stay tuned.
Enjoy.
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