[mnet-devel] Announcing Mnet v0.6

[R. A. Hettinga]

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From: Zooko <zooko at zooko.com>
Subject: [mnet-devel] Announcing Mnet v0.6
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Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 19:02:16 -0500


The Mnet Development Team [1] is pleased to announce the release of Mnet v0.6.

Mnet is a "universal file space" -- a global space in which you can store and
retrieve files.  The contents of the universal file space are independent of
any particular server.  It comes with a GUI file browser that looks a bit like
a classical file-sharing tool such as Napster.  The code is published under the
L GNU Public License.

The major user-visible improvements of v0.6 over v0.5.1 are that broken files
now get erased from the content directories, and that downloads are much faster
and more reliable.

The major Known Bug in this release is that the fundamental architecture is
efficient for small networks but inherently unscalable.  Zooko makes the wild
guess that the current code (v0.6) will start failing once there are more than
250 nodes on the network, and that incremental improvements (which will
probably
be named v0.6.1) will work with more than 250 nodes but will start failing once
there are more than 2500 nodes.  A new fundamental architecture that can handle
arbitrarily large networks is under development, and will be released as
Mnet v0.7.  (See the Mnet weather report [2] for the current size of the
network
and some performance measurements.)

Please view the ChangeLog for more details:

http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/mnet/mnet/ChangeLog?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup

Please visit the download page for precompiled packages for Linux, Windows,
FreeBSD, and Solaris.  Also available from the download page are instructions
for compiling the software from source.

http://mnet.sf.net/download.php

Please use Mnet and report bugs via e-mail to <mnet-devel at lists.sf.net>, or by
using the SourceForge bug tracker:

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?group_id=43482&atid=436453

The availability and persistence of files is strongly influenced by how stable
the servers are.  If you run a stable Mnet server it will help.

More information is available on the project web page:

http://mnet.sf.net/

Regards,

Zooko

Developer, Mnet Project

[1] The Mnet Development Team is a loosely-organized band of hackers from
around
the planet who work on the project as a volunteer, non-profit operation in the
public interest.  Each hacker is either single or else associated with a very
supportive romantic partner.

[2] The Mnet Weather Report is a series of e-mails to the mnet-devel mailing
list with the mysterious From: address "Carnivore".
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=7702



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