FrostWire is an peer-to-peer file sharing program for the Gnutella and BitTorrent protocols. FrostWire is written in Java, and is a fork of LimeWire, another popular Gnutella client. The project was started in September 2005 by members of the LimeWire open-source community, after LimeWire's distributor considered placing "blocking" code, which it was developing in response to RIAA pressure and the threat of legal action, in light of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in MGM Studios, Inc. v. Grokster, Ltd. When eventually activated, the code could block its users from sharing licensed files. FrostWire was first released in October 2005.

As with Limewire, FrostWire is written in Java, and so is capable of supporting multiple platforms. LimeWire is available in both free and paid versions, while FrostWire is released only as a free version. The FrostWire program includes all of the free LimeWire version's functionality, plus a few features of LimeWire Pro's fee based upgrade. FrostWire also provides a chatroom which is absent in LimeWire. FrostWire's interface is nearly identical to that of LimeWire's since it's based on the same code base, however, the color scheme is slightly different as is shown in the picture above. As in LimeWire, the FrostWire skin may also be changed to a variety of different colors.

Features:
. Completely Free & open-source
. Firewall-to-firewall transfers
. Turbo-Charged Download Speeds
. Absolutely NO Spyware or Adware
. Connects to more sources
. Creative Commons license support
. Max. speed network connections
. Junk Result Filters
. Community Chat Rooms
. iTunes Integration
. BitTorrent Support
. Proxy Support

Changes in version 4.13.5:
* Faster peer discovery on connection bootstraping. No more "Starting Connection..." problems, first time users will connect faster without using the official FixConnecting.zip patch.
* Smiley Support to the chatroom
- Users can see the available smileys by entering the command /smileys
- Now its possible to see and use Smileys from the Community Chat tab, Smiley display can be enabled or disabled from the view menu
- Users can also toggle Smiley display directly from the chat window by typing the command /tsmileys
* Fixed wording on Spanish and Polish translations.

Bug Fixes and other improvements for this release also include:
* FrostWire Message Update System improved. Per community request, some announcements will not be shown more than once so the user is not annoyed upon every application launch
* Fixed bugs on the media player and playlists on Preview.
* Fixed bug on search box auto-focusing while a search was running.
* Fixed i18n system error for systems which default language is not english
* Potential bugs related to deprecated code gone

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using which interface ares or bittorent?looking for something like ares..easy to use.

Frostwire is like limewire... for music sharing.

download speed good?can bypass TMnut throttling?

Nice software ... but dl speed 5 ~ 10kbps

written in java
how is the memory utilization ?