From: "Scott G. Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> What??!??! >> User-friendliness is "not really appropriate for our goals of freedom of >> information" ??!? >Of course user friendliness is. Being exactly like >Joe-Poorly-Designed-Filesharing-Network isn't.
Point taken. Sorry for the misunderstanding. Anyway, Sebastian's new installer, and the new gui configurator announced earlier today, should hopefully create a brain-dead-easy foundation for a truly user-friendly freenet on windows. All we need now is an arsenal of kickass freenet client apps. Status of traditional internet applications, and their implementation (or lack thereof) over Freenet: 1) Web browsing - now working well :) 2) Email - nothing yet - apps urgently needed - either dedicated freenet f-mail application, or (preferably) POP/SMTP servers to support any email client in the way that fproxy/fcpproxy supports any web browser. This would be best if it uses openPGP libraries, and supports automatic key exchange, even runs a central in-freenet PK service. 3) Chat - nothing yet - value of this could be questionable because of rate of key insertions required, and their effect on Freenet 4) Usenet - the FMB beta client is an excellent start - it needs to support n 'newsgroups' instead of just one. 5) File-sharing - while the Napster and Gnutella protocols as they stand are totally impossible within Freenet, many concepts can be borrowed and adapted into a scheme well-suited to Freenet, and front-ended with a specialised Freenet client. Search functionality is also very possible - some of FMB's architectural concepts could be borrowed for this (provided that FMB isn't filed under a software patent (...just kidding!)). 6) FTP - not supported yet - repositories of downloadable media files are presently implemented as a loose network of inter-linked freesites - scope exists for a freenet client to be implemented as a localhost FTP server, which inserts files that are picked up by an anonymous master server, which re-inserts these files under a master tree. Enumerated keys instead of date-based SSKs. Through using SSK public or private keys under the root, the FTP server can support the FTP client in inserting and requesting keys. 7) CVS - nothing done yet, however the idea aroused interesting discussion on #freenet recently, where developers rated the idea as viable. Cheers David _______________________________________________ Chat mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/chat
