FrostWire gets popular on SourceForge.net
FrostWire on the web – November 2008
These are the blogs and sites we’ve spotted talking about FrostWire recently.
Our thanks to all for spreading the word.
Bill Mullins’ Weblog – Tech Thoughts
If you have reviewed or talked about FrostWire on your blog or website, please leave a comment on this post, and we’ll update the list by adding a link to your page.
Kalong from Strands.com got a FrostWire T-Shirt
Thanks to Kalong from Strands.com for posting this video of her receiving the FrostWire T-Shirt and stickers.
Also thanks to all the users that have posted pictures of their stickers and t-shirts on our Flickr Photo Album
About Strands.com
Strands is a life streaming service that helps users discover new things based on what their friends like and do, and allows them to see what’s hot among the people they care about.
From Wikipedia
New FrostWire 4.17.1 Released
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Official FrostWire 4.17.1 Download link
FrostWire.com — The last of the 4.17.x FrostWire series is finally out. The following is a list of the most important updates made for this release, which irons out most of the complains received from the community in regards to 4.17.0.
The new FrostWire will allow us to distribute twice the number of installers using the same bandwidth employed by 4.17.0, The new FrostWire installer has been reduced in sized more than 50% by using the latest in compression technology.
About FrostWire
FrostWire, a BitTorrent/Gnutella Peer-to-Peer client, is a collaborative effort from many Open Source developers and contributors from all around the world. In late 2005, concerned developers of LimeWire’s open source community announced the start of a new project fork “FrostWire” that would protect the developmental source code of the LimeWire client and any improvements to the Gnutella protocol design. The developers of FrostWire give high regard and respect to the GNU General Public License and consider it to be the ideal foundation of a creative and free enterprise market.
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FrostWire included in new PCLinuxOS 2009
We just read the release message from the PCLinuxOS team, and it mentions FrostWire is included in the distro.
This beta iso features kernel 2.6.26.6.tex2, KDE 3.5.10, Open Office 2.4.1, Firefox 3.0.3, Thunderbird 2.0.0.14, Frostwire, Ktorrent, Amarok, Flash, Java JRE, Compiz-Fusion 3D and much more.
FrostWire: Safe to Install
The Editor in Chief of FindMySoft.com has just sent us the following message, which we’re very proud of:
Hello!
I am the FindMySoft.com Editor in Chief.
FindMySoft.com is running a program to certify shareware and freeware software.
We are pleased to inform you that your software FrostWire 4.17.0 has been tested on 01 Oct 2008 by one of our software engineers and has been found \”SAFE TO INSTALL\” on any computer. It has been granted the \”SAFE TO INSTALL\” certificate. This means that your software contains no viruses, spyware, adware, trojans and backdoors and causes no threat when installed.
We would also like to congratulate you for the quality of your product. It exceeds the quality standards of many other software products in its category.
Edith, Editor in Chief FindMySoft.com
Other Safe Download Certificates
Tested Spyware free by Download.com
FrostWire on the Blogosphere recently
Here’s a list of some of the blogs that have taken the time to write about FrostWire recently:
Easy Tech Talk – Stop Using LimeWire
Carlos Leopoldo – FrostWire como LimeWire PRO pero gratis
Zzillez dot net – FrostWire Chat Server
Waterfowl Blog – Faster and better LimeWire alternative
How-To: Install and Run FrostWire 4.17.0 in Debian Lenny
FrostWire is the most popular Mac download on download.com
FrostWire 4.17.0 was listed on download.com for the first time only 2 weeks ago, two weeks after, the mac user base has made it the most popular software for the week ending July 20th of 2008.
Thank you, keep spreading the voice
FrostWire 4.17.0 Released
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Official FrostWire 4.17.0 Download link
After 6 months of work, a completely new fork from the LimeWire code base has come to fruition, FrostWire 4.17.0 features over a year’s worth of core and user interface upgrades made to the original LimeWire client, now included in FrostWire along all the previous work done over FrostWire 4.13.x.
Among the most important updates:
- Upgrades on our update notification system, capability for featured content and recommendations
- Updated Playlist (drag & drop support, and Playlist rearrange options)
- New Media Player with volume and seek controls (Plays mp3, ogg and wav)
- Support for private torrents
- Greater control over your Shared files
- Add Magnets to Open Dialog
- Improvements in bootstrapping
- Warn When Too Many Files Shared
- Make Ultrapeers ignore partial results
- Mojito DHT capable (still not active for 4.17.0)
- More translations to be available for the community on launchpad.net. Many improvements for Spanish, and Italian and Chinese have been finally been added among others
- Reduce query traffic by knowing firewalled state; implement leafs informing ups of firewall status.
- Recognize flv as a video extension.
- Enable removal from playlist via the ‘Delete’ or ‘Backspace’ key.
- (Bittorrent) Extended BEncoding to support rational numbers.
- Add support for alternate location lookup for BitTorrents.
- Use less memory for large number of leaf connections.
- General Save folder improvements.
- Smoother Icon Tray Icons for Linux and Windows
- FrostWire now runs under Java SE 6 on Mac OS X (however SE6 is temperamental; it exhibits some strange connection issues). More integration with the MacOSX dock and other components
- Speedup Magnet/Torrents at startup.
- Add partial search results.
- Exclude magnet downloads from being purged after 7 days.
- Incremental search on the Settings window
- Default setting tweaks for users with high speed connections (T1,T3) to make the most out of their bandwith
Faster than ever
Here’s a full screenshot of the new speeds achieved with FrostWire 4.17.0 when downloading torrents.
FrostWire 4.17.0 is a major milestone on the project road map, many new innovations are to come after this release, stay tuned.
About FrostWire
FrostWire, a Gnutella Peer-to-Peer client, is a collaborative effort from many Open Source and freelance developers located from all around the world. In late 2005, concerned developers of LimeWire’s open source community announced the start of a new project fork “FrostWire” that would protect the developmental source code of the LimeWire client and any improvements to the Gnutella protocol design. The developers of FrostWire give high regard and respect to the GNU General Public License and consider it to be the ideal foundation of a creative and free enterprise market.
Official FrostWire Blog 