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Encyclopedia > Caribou (computer program)

Caribou is an open-source peer-to-peer application on the Gnutella2 network. It runs on various varieties of UNIX, Microsoft Windows, and Mac OS X. Its goal is to allow searching and downloading of files, as well as adding news and messaging within the same program, while maintaining a clean interface. Open source describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end products sources. ... A peer-to-peer (or P2P) computer network is a network that relies on the computing power and bandwidth of the participants in the network rather than concentrating it in a relatively few servers. ... The Gnutella2 peer-to-peer protocol is a reworking of the Gnutella protocol, written mainly by Michael Stokes. ... Wikibooks has more about this subject: Guide to Unix Unix or UNIX is a computer operating system originally developed in the 1960s and 1970s by a group of AT&T Bell Labs employees including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, and Douglas McIlroy. ... Windows redirects here. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...


Currently, only the network library is available for download, however it is a working implementation of the Gnutella2 protocol, and is the second program to implement Gnutella2 as a stand-alone network (Adagio being the first.) Adagio is a server-only computer program for the peer-to-peer Gnutella2 network. ...


External links

  • Official Caribou site (Caribou and its site appear to have been removed from Epitech's servers!)

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Caribou (computer program) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (151 words)
Caribou is an open-source peer-to-peer application on the Gnutella2 network.
Its goal is to allow searching and downloading of files, as well as adding news and messaging within the same program, while maintaining a clean interface.
Currently, only the network library is available for download, however it is a working implementation of the Gnutella2 protocol, and is the second program to implement Gnutella2 as a stand-alone network (Adagio being the first.)
WDFW -- Wildlife Research: Mountain Caribou Recovery Project (375 words)
Objectives of the study are designed to significantly increase the endangered population of woodland caribou in the Selkirk Mountains of Washington, Idaho, and British Columbia.
Caribou are captured on snow-covered ridges in nets that are shot over animal from a special rifle fired by a biologist in a helicopter.
The program will allow interested readers to follow our research on a monthly basis, and even retrieve data from the Internet and manipulate these data on their own computer, or in the classroom as a group.
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