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since osx is UNix based......why not kazaa for mac

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Posted 28 October 2002 - 02:17 PM

Eh?
Why not? They built Kazaa for Linux users so I hope it's just around the corner for mac users too.

Since Linux is an open source OS and OSX seems to be too, I'm sure they/others could find a simple way of making it work on a mac. Right now there's no really good file sharing P2P program for mac. Sure, I'm going to get replies with people naming off mac P2P apps but you have to admt, there's nothing like Kazaa... or audio galaxy... or any of the PC based file sharing programs...

Why not mac?!!!

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Posted 28 October 2002 - 02:48 PM

Sure Kazaa has lots of nifty features, but isn't it just a gnutella client? Besides, you always get more than you want with Kazaa; Popups, spyware, etc...
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Posted 28 October 2002 - 03:11 PM

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Sure Kazaa has lots of nifty features, but isn't it just a gnutella client? Besides, you always get more than you want with Kazaa; Popups, spyware, etc...

Kazaa is a FastTrack client, actually. FastTrack is much better than Gnutella in pretty much every way imaginable.

Regarding popups, spyware, etc. in Kazaa... Use Kazaa Lite. It's completely spyware and ad free.

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Posted 28 October 2002 - 03:14 PM

Regarding the original question... There is no functional Linux FastTrack client, sadly.

[ 10-28-2002: Message edited by: Par III ]

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Posted 28 October 2002 - 03:21 PM

Apparently you can use Virtual PC for Kazaa. I have never used VPC so I dont know how it works. So for the people who do use it how exactly does "saving files" from Kazaa work and how are you supposed to share your own files? For example when using Kazaa in VPC does it recognize the Macs file directories?
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Posted 28 October 2002 - 03:31 PM

There is
it lets me browser a few hundered KaZaA serversneo
I use LimeWire Pro. It sucked under 10.15, but it's really fast under 10.21. I can normally find tons of whatever I want, except mac games. I buy those anyways.
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Posted 28 October 2002 - 03:32 PM

In VPC, you can access your Mac folders as network drives. You could create a folder called "Kazaa Stuff" in OS X and then under Windows you could access it as your F: drive. Then with Kazaa you could directly upload/download files into that.
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Posted 28 October 2002 - 03:36 PM

sorry about the double post and the misplaced URL
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