MLDonkey is an open source, free software multi-network peer-to-peer application. It is also the name of the peer-to-peer overlay network that the MLDonkey uses. Originally a Linux client for the eDonkey protocol, it now runs on many flavors of Unix-like, Mac OS X, Windows and MorphOS and supports numerous peer-to-peer protocols. It is written in Objective Caml, with some C and even some Assembly parts. A software release refers to the creation and availability of a new version of a computer software product. ... April 27 is the 117th day of the year (118th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 248 days remaining. ... 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the Anno Domini era. ... An operating system (OS) is a set of computer programs that manage the hardware and software resources of a computer. ... A cross-platform (or platform independent) programming language, software application or hardware device works on more than one system platform (e. ... 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. ... A software license is a legal agreement which may take the form of a proprietary or gratuitous license as well as a memorandum of contract between a producer and a user of computer software. ... The GNU logo The GNU General Public License (GNU GPL or simply GPL) is a widely-used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU project. ... A website (or Web site) is a collection of web pages, images, videos and other digital assets and hosted on a particular domain or subdomain on the World Wide Web. ... Open source refers to projects that are open to the public and which draw on other projects that are freely available to the general public. ... This article is about free software as defined by the sociopolitical free software movement; for information on software distributed without charge, see freeware. ... 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. ... An overlay network is a computer network which is built on top of another network. ... Linux (IPA pronunciation: ) is a Unix-like computer operating system family. ... The eDonkey network (also known as eDonkey2000 network or eD2k) is a peer-to-peer file sharing network used primarily to exchange audio and video files and computer software. ... Diagram of the relationships between several Unix-like systems A Unix-like operating system is one that behaves in a manner similar to a Unix system, while not necessarily conforming to or being certified to any version of the Single UNIX Specification. ... Mac OS X (official IPA pronunciation: ) is a line of proprietary, graphical operating systems developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. ... Microsoft Windows is the name of several families of proprietary software operating systems by Microsoft. ... MorphOS is a mixed proprietary and open source operating system produced for the PegasosPPC hardware platform by a core development team and contributors. ... Objective Caml (OCaml) is the main implementation of the Caml programming language, created by Xavier Leroy, Jérôme Vouillon, Damien Doligez, Didier Rémy and others in 1996. ... C is a general-purpose, procedural, imperative computer programming language developed in 1972 by Dennis Ritchie at the Bell Telephone Laboratories for use with the Unix operating system. ... An assembly language is a low-level language used in the writing of computer programs. ...

History

Development of the software began in late 2001. The original developer of MLDonkey is Fabrice Le Fessant from INRIA. 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Institut national de recherche en informatique et en automatique (INRIA) is a French national research institution focusing on computer science, control theory and applied mathematics. ...

Features

Features of MLdonkey core:

• Peer to peer (p2p) program that supports the following network protocols, either partially or completely:
  • eDonkey network
  • Overnet
  • BitTorrent
  • Gnutella
  • Gnutella2
  • FastTrack
  • Kad Network
  • OpenNap (currently broken)
  • SoulSeek (currently broken)
  • DirectConnect - As many users of the MLDonkey client (mldc) choose to report inflated share sizes, mldc is not welcome to many DC hubs, and violates the common "no fake shares" rule. (currently broken)
  • HTTP/FTP
• Controlled by Telnet, Web interface or various GUIs

Written in the Ocaml programming language and licensed under the GPL, the application separates the user interface (which can be a web browser, telnet, or a third-party GUI application) and the code that interacts with the peer-to-peer networks. The eDonkey network (also known as eDonkey2000 network or eD2k) is a peer-to-peer file sharing network used primarily to exchange audio and video files and computer software. ... Overnet is a decentralized peer-to-peer computer network, usually used for sharing large files (e. ... It has been suggested that this article be split into multiple articles accessible from a disambiguation page. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... The Gnutella2 peer-to-peer protocol is a reworking of the Gnutella protocol, written mainly by Michael Stokes. ... FastTrack is a peer-to-peer protocol, used by the Kazaa (and variants, Grokster and iMesh) file sharing programs. ... The Kad Network is a peer-to-peer network which implements the Kademlia P2P overlay protocol. ... OpenNAP is a piece of free software that replicates the functionality of the once-popular Napster peer-to-peer filesharing server. ... This article does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with NeoModus Direct Connect. ... HTTP (for HyperText Transfer Protocol) is the primary method used to convey information on the World Wide Web. ... “FTP” redirects here. ... GUI can refer to the following: GUI is short for graphical user interface, a term used to describe a type of interface in computing. ... Objective Caml (OCaml) is a general-purpose programming language descended from the ML family, created by Xavier Leroy, Jérôme Vouillon, Damien Doligez, Didier Rémy and others in 1996. ... The GNU logo The GNU General Public License (GNU GPL or simply GPL) is a widely-used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU project. ... An example of a web browser (Internet Explorer), displaying the English Wikipedia main page. ... For the packet switched network, see Telenet. ... GUI can refer to the following: GUI is short for graphical user interface, a term used to describe a type of interface in computing. ...

MLDonkey is able to connect different networks simultanously. MLDonkey runs in a terminal session and does not require a GUI environment. All is controlled by editable ini-files. More user friendly you do this by using seperate user interfaces (local ore remote).

See also

• Comparison of BitTorrent software
• Comparison of eDonkey software
• mlMac

The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of applications supporting BitTorrent. ... The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of available applications supporting the eDonkey network. ... mlMac is a GUI for mldonkey. ...

Frontends

• KMldonkey
• Sancho
• Burro
• Onager (PalmOS)

External links

• MLDonkey project page
• MLDonkey Homepage
• MLDonkey developer page -> Bug/Task/Patch-tracker
• MLDonkey Downloads
• MLDonkey/Mulus File Archive