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Ares Galaxy
Developed by aresgalaxy

josh1321
lap3k
todd_terry
xeontm[1]
Latest release 2. A software developer is a person or organization concerned with facets of the software development process wider than design and coding a somewhat broader scope of A software release is the distribution whether public or private of an initial or new and upgraded version of a Computer software product 0. 9. 05022007 / May 3, 2007 (2007-05-03); 406 days ago
Written in Delphi
OS Microsoft Windows
Genre Peer-to-peer filesharing
License GPL
Website aresgalaxy.sourceforge.net (inconsistently updated) or Ares Sourceforge page


Ares Galaxy is an open source peer-to-peer file sharing application that uses its own decentralized supernode/leaf network. Events 1491 - Kongo monarch Nkuwu Nzinga is baptised by Portuguese missionaries adopting the baptismal name of João Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. A programming language is an Artificial language that can be used to write programs which control the behavior of a machine particularly a Computer. An operating system (commonly abbreviated OS and O/S) is the software component of a Computer system that is responsible for the management and coordination Microsoft Windows is a series of Software Operating systems and Graphical user interfaces produced by Microsoft. Computer software can be organized into categories based on common function type or field of use For other uses of the term see Peer-to-peer (disambiguation For peer-to-peer networks used for file sharing see File sharing A software license (or software licence in commonwealth usage is a Legal instrument governing the usage or redistribution of copyright protected software A website (alternatively web site or Web site, a back-construction from the Proper noun World Wide Web) is a collection of Web pages For other uses of the term see Peer-to-peer (disambiguation For peer-to-peer networks used for file sharing see File sharing See Shared resource for the conventional meaning of file sharing File sharing refers to the providing and receiving of digital files over a It was spun-off from the Gnutella network in 2002, and is currently hosted on SourceForge.net. SourceForgenet is a Source code repository. It acts as a centralized location for software developers to control and manage open source software development Ares Galaxy has a simple, quick access interface with a built in audio/video viewer. The latest versions also support the BitTorrent protocol and Shoutcast radio stations. BitTorrent is a Peer-to-peer File sharing protocol used to distribute large amounts of Data. SHOUTcast is a server for Streaming media developed by Nullsoft.

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The Ares Network

Ares development began in the middle of 2002 and was originally operating on the Gnutella network. See also 2002 (disambiguation Year 2002 ( MMII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. Gnutella (nʊˈtɛlə with a silent g, or alternatively /gnʊˈtɛlə/ is a File sharing network Six months later, it switched to its own network comprising the leaves-and-supernodes p2p architecture. In Peer-to-peer networking a supernode is any node that also serves as one of that network's relayers and Proxy servers handling data flow and connections Its protocol is more difficult to identify than other popular P2P programs. As a result Ares is sometimes the only P2P client that functions on restricted networks, such as some university campuses. However, it is not impossible to block, and many organizations are now doing so. From version 1. 9. 0, data sharing was enabled between two peers behind a firewall. This may be due to mediating peers. [2] The Ares network was, at one time, largely free from false and corrupt files, unlike others like FastTrack. FastTrack is a Peer-to-peer (P2P protocol, used by the Kazaa (and variants Grokster and IMesh) File sharing programs However this has changed as its popularity as a file sharing network has increased. Since late 2006, several anti-piracy groups, including MediaDefender and BayTSP, working for the RIAA, have started hosting fake MP3 files on Ares. MediaDefender is a company that offers services designed to prevent alleged Copyright infringement using Peer-to-peer distribution BayTSP is a Copyright enforcement company based in Los Gatos California. MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3, more commonly referred to as MP3, is a Digital audio encoding format using a form of Lossy data compression These files are hosted from multiple computers using extremely high bandwidth and therefore appear at the top of the list for any search query that returns them as a result. In Computer networking and Computer science, digital bandwidth or just bandwidth is the capacity for a given system to transfer data over a connection Some users report that the reliability of establishing connections can be difficult and erratic. From version 1. 9. 4, Ares included support for the BitTorrent protocol. BitTorrent is a Peer-to-peer File sharing protocol used to distribute large amounts of Data.

Hashlinks

Ares has "hashlinks" functionality. Ares is able to search for peers with files pertaining to a hash and download from them. Some sites have begun to post verified Ares hashlinks. Some hashlinks can be decrypted and encrypted online. A website that supports Chat Channel hashlink encryption and Chat channel hashlink decryption can be found on http://www.devilworks.co.uk/hashlink .

SHOUTcast

From version 1. 9. 9, Ares Galaxy has an experimental support for the SHOUTcast internet radio. SHOUTcast is a server for Streaming media developed by Nullsoft.

Standalone chat software

Alternatives

The following stand-alone alternative clients are known to connect with the Ares network:

In addition, a giFT-Ares plugin for giFT has been released to provide access the Ares network. Poisoned is a free Peer-to-peer File sharing client for Mac OS X, whose name is an allusion to the German word Gift Mac OS X (mæk oʊ ɛs tɛn is a line of computer Operating systems developed marketed and sold by Apple Inc, the latest of which is pre-loaded on all currently giFT Internet File Transfer ( giFT) is a computer software daemon that allows several File sharing protocols to be used with a simple client having a However, there has been problems with the plugin regarding certain issues like connecting to the network.

There is no alternative software for Linux, but it is possible to run Ares in Linux using Wine. Linux (commonly pronounced ˈlɪnəks Linux (commonly pronounced ˈlɪnəks Wine is a free Software application which aims to allow Unix-like computer Operating systems on the X86 architecture to execute

Awards

Ares has been reviewed and awarded in several magazines and websites, some of them are:

References

  1. ^ SourceForge.net: Project Member List
  2. ^ Ares Introduces Firewall to Firewall Transfers

External links

Official Sites

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