eMule is in constant development and currently represents about 90% of all clients in the eD2k network.
Most notably, eDonkey2000, the original client by MetaMachine, closed-source but freeware, and no longer maintained but very popular in its day and eMule, a free program for Windows written in Visual C++ and licensed under the GNU GPL. There are many programs that act as the client part of the network. The eserver family is currently in active development and support, and almost all eD2k servers now (2008) run this server software.
EMULE LINUX SOFTWARE
There are two families of server software for the eD2k network: the original one from MetaMachine, written in C++, closed-source and proprietary, and no longer maintained and eserver, written from scratch by a person named Lugdunum in pure C, also closed-source and proprietary, although available free of charge and for several operating systems and computer architectures.
The server part of the network is proprietary freeware. Like most sharing networks, it is decentralized, as there is not any central hub for the network also, files are not stored on a central server but are exchanged directly between users based on the peer-to-peer principle.Ĭurrently, the eD2k network is not supported by any organization (in the past it was supported by the MetaMachine Corporation, its creator, which now is out of business) and development and maintenance is being fully provided by its community and client developers. The eDonkey Network (also known as the eDonkey2000 network or eD2k) is a decentralized, mostly server-based, peer-to-peer file sharing network best suited to share big files among users, and to provide long term availability of files.
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