Apollon 1.0.2.1 review

Apollon is a Peer-to-Peer File-Sharing Program written for Linux. Apollon uses the giFT core to connect to various networks, inclu

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Apollon is a Peer-to-Peer File-Sharing Program written for Linux.

Apollon uses the giFT core to connect to various networks, including OpenFT, Gnutella, FastTrack

OpenFT is the homegrown giFT network, Gnutella is the network used by BearShare, LimeWire and others and FastTrack is the popular network used by KaZaA.

Apollon uses a plugin system which allows you to choose which network or multiple networks you wish to use. Finally, plugins for the OpenNap and SoulSeek networks are under development.

Here are some key features of "Apollon":
Searching and downloading from several networks at the same time
Tabbed searching
Preview of mp3 and videos (you need kde-multimedia installed)
Configure giFT and your plugins with Apollon's settings dialog
FirstRun wizard to get started easily
systemtray docking
Download in the background
Apollon can connect to a remote giFT daemon
Chat for Apollon users
Comes in several languages. So far:
Brazilian (pt_br)
Danish
Dutch
English
Finnish
French
German
Greek
Hebrew
Italian
Norwegian
Polish
Russian
Serbian
Spanish


What's New in This Release:
added icons for Ares.
improvements of the search page
all in one installer contains Ares plugin as well
fixed some translation filenames.