Hello all, I've been following the development of Freenet for a few years now but haven't had my own permanent connection outside work so I haven't got around to setting up a node until now. I'm in the process of developing a scalable media distribution system and I'm considering using Freenet as the distribution network for a number of reasons, including the fact that I am wholly supportive of Freenet's philosophy and the goals of the project.
I downloaded the latest freenet disto, installed it on Mac OS 10.2 and ran it using JDK 1.4.1_01. The first time I ran it, the localhost:8888 page can up with no images and each of the links lead to an error page, so I restarted the freenet and got slightly better results. The images on the localhost page came and I could get some of the pages that were linked there, although most of the links lead to error pages. I then ran the update.sh script, ran freenet again, and it came up with errors in the terminal saying that it couldn't determine my IP and asking me to specify my ip in the config file. So I opened the config file, only to find that it had been overwritten by the update and there were only two lines in there. I had a look around and found that I should remove the config file and run freenet again to go through the setup questions. Having got my config file back, I tried to use the system again with similar results. I understand that Freenet is not going to perform well until it has had an opportunity to learn about its environment and gather information about other nodes, but I was surprised by how poorly it behaved when I ran it for the first time. I should add that I am not a novice computer user, and have been doing network-related programming for about four years now. I'm still interested in contributing to the Freenet project in the course of my own development of the distribution system, but I am yet to be convinced that Freenet is going to be able to provide a network that won't scare first-time users away. Consumer software relies on a positive first impression, and I fear that I will be unable to offer this using the Freenet system. I'm now going to do a lot more research into the workings of the system to find out what's going wrong and what I can do to make it better, but I'd really appreciate any feedback which you guys may have on the issues that I've come up against. First impressions really do make a lasting impression. Thanks, Simon __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hawk.freenetproject.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech
