XMule

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xMule — the X11 Mule — is a client for the eDonkey peer-to-peer file sharing network, intended to bring it to virtually all the major Unix platforms, with a particular emphasis on Linux. The most recent version of xMule is version 1.13.6 which was released on March 1 2006.

xMule is a fork of the LMule client, which itself was originally a Linux-only port of the eMule client. Due to severe differences between the developers, a new fork was created with the aMule project on August 19 2003; the day that one of xMule's maintainers, Ted R. Smith, was sued by the MPAA.

xMule has since suffered from a negative publicity campaign of anonymous comments by people who claim to use aMule on software review sites such as GnomeFiles and Zeropaid, while promoting aMule, even going so far as to suggest that the xMule project has stopped. [1] [2]

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Trivia

The name xMule was created as the new official name for the LMule project when it was first ported to FreeBSD in early May 2003 and the maintainers effectively lost control of the LMule website. [3] [4]

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