Ares Galaxy

FactScore: 53
(Jun 26, 2008)

Description

SourceForge ⁱ⁾

Filesharing-Bittorrent p2p client connected to TCP supernode/leaf network and UDP DHT network. Ares features a built-in directshow media player, a powerful library manager, shoutcast radio support and can be used to host p2p Chatrooms.

Wikipedia ⁱⁱ⁾

josh1321 lap3k todd_terry xeontm[1] Latest release 2.0.9.05022007 / May 3, 2007 (2007-05-03); 419 days ago Written in Delphi OS Microsoft Windows Genre Peer-to-peer filesharing License GPL Website aresgalaxy.sourceforge.net (inconsistently updated) or Ares Sourceforge page Ares Galaxy is an open source peer-to-peer file sharing application that uses its own decentralized supernode/leaf network. It was spun-off from the Gnutella network in 2002, and is currently hosted on SourceForge.net. Ares Galaxy has a simple, quick access interface with a built in audio/video viewer. The latest versions also support the BitTorrent protocol and Shoutcast radio stations.

Details ⁱ⁾

Name	:	Ares Galaxy
License	:	GNU General Public License (GPL)
Operating System	:	32-bit MS Windows (NT/2000/XP)
Programming Language	:	Delphi/Kylix
Topic	:	Chat, File Sharing
Translations	:	Arabic, Chinese (Simplified), Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Kirghiz, Polish, Portuguese, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish
User Interface	:	Win32 (MS Windows)
Official Site	:	http://aresgalaxy.sourceforge.net
Wikipedia	:	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ares_Galaxy

Statistics

SourceForge ⁱ⁾

Ranking	:	1219
Activity percentile (last week)	:	99.45%
Downloadable files	:	158309014 total downloads to date
Mailing lists (public)	:	0
Discussion forums (public)	:	2, containing 1305 messages
Bugs	:	189 open/204 total
Support Requests	:	167 open/168 total
Patches	:	24 open/28 total
Feature Requests	:	233 open/233 total

Alexa (for sourceforge.net) ⁱⁱⁱ⁾

Traffic Rank	:	124
Reach	:	103
Speed	:	Fast (4% sites are faster), Avg Load Time: 0.395 Seconds
Linking-In	:	35,922
Online Since	:	08-Aug-1999
Owner	:	unlisted
Address	:
Phone	:

Google (for aresgalaxy.sourceforge.net) ^iv)

Pagerankv)	:	6
Page Saturation	:	9
Page Popularity	:	31,400
Link Popularity	:	340

Quotes: (of about 7)

• Ares Galaxy is well known in the industry as being the ‘gold standard’ of Ares P2P filesharing software. How did it get this reputation? Simply by being the best out there for quite some time. Until now, when there are a number of Ares ... more
• But like in so many other industries where the most popular and well known brand is not the best product, Ares Galaxy is not at the top of the tree when it comes to filesharing applications. The original version of Ares was Ares Galaxy ... more
• Ares Galaxy is most certainly not the only horse in this race; what’s more, this particular horse is getting on a bit and is starting to drop to the rear of the pack. Of course this change hasn’t happened suddenly, and in fact Ares ... more
• It’s not that Ares Galaxy is bad, it’s just that some of the newer crop of ‘imitations’ – Ares Vista, Ares Ultra and Ares Ultimate – are so much more useful, reliable, quicker and, well better. There are attempts to drag the Ares model ... more
• Not all new things are good, of course, and some of the new versions to stay away from are Ares Gold and Ares Destiny, both of which bundle Ares with adware. Apart from these bad apples it is clear that Ares Galaxy is simply a victim of ... more
• Ares Galaxy is living of its name and its reputation somewhat, but this façade of modern competency must surely be about to crumble. As a result of more years of technological advance and the power of hindsight, the newer versions of ... more
• Ares Lite Ares Galaxy is a full-featured P2P network with its own file sharing client. Free Ares Lite and Regular Edition client downloads exist along with suppporting tools. Locate an Ares download here. Lately I�ve been planning the ... more

Related Sites (of about 27):

• http://sourceforge.net/
  The world's largest development and download repository of Open Source code and applications.
• http://compnetworking.about.com/od/p2ppeertopeer/qt/aresdownload.htm
  Ares Galaxy is a full-featured P2P network with its own file sharing client. Free Ares Lite and Regular Edition client downloads exist along with ...
• http://www.emule-project.net/
  Open source Windows client for the ED2K and de-centralized Kad networks released under GPL.
• http://cabos.sourceforge.jp/
  Open source, crossplatform Gnutella client with proxy and firewall to firewall file transfer support.
• http://www.kceasy.com/
  Open source Windows client built using giFT. Connects to the Gnutella, Ares and OpenFT networks. Site includes download links, FAQ and a forum.
• http://www.slsknet.org/
  Soulseek is a community system based on Peer-t-Peer technologies..>
• http://www.edonkey2000.com/
  The eDonkey2000 Network is no longer available. If you steal music or movies, you are breaking the law. Courts around the world -- including the United ...
• http://www.ccleaner.com/
  CCleaner created by Piriform authors of the hugely popular freeware tools CCleaner, Recuva and Defraggler.
• http://www.videolan.org/
  An open source project of students from the École Centrale de Paris which aimed to broadcast video on the campus. It now supports streams from a satellite, ...
• http://www.slyck.com/
  News site with regular articles and statistics on the state of major P2P networks.

References

i)	SourceForge.net
ii)	Wikipedia.org
iii)	Alexa Search Engine
iv)	Google Search Engine: Page saturation Page popularity Link popularity Quotes Related sites
v)	SEOpen Search Engine Optimization

FactScore: 53
(Jun 26, 2008)