Limewire - Complete Utter Crap!
 

Hi!

Im sorry to say this...

...but Limewire is just about the WORST, MOST BUGGED piece software ever released for the mac. It is utterly destroying my mac os. It crashes every 10 minutes and deletes its download-que time after time. So hopefully there will be another gnutella client for mac along shortly, so the misery will be over...

Thanks

-"Normal Mac User from Sweden"

If you'd install a proper operating system with a real java runtime environment, you won't have any of those problems.

LimeWire ain't the problem , your Mac is !
Should have thought about this kind of problems before you bought the ****box .

My mac runs limewire great
 

I am running os mac os x the greatest os ever and I have served up 140,000 in the three weeks my power mac g4 has been on. I would like to help you unregistered user. drop me a line

I have to admit, I've NEVER had Limeware crash, or lock up, on my G4 running OS X. Then again, I've never had OS X crash either. Limeware runs a little on the sluggish side, but then it's slow on my P3-933 too.

btw, Mac OS X does use a real Java implementation.. Microsoft is the only one that uses a hacked version of Sun's standard.

I haven't tried the OS 9 version though, so I can rightly comment on it.

MS can't **** up JAVA since the JVM required to run LW comes straight from Sun .

You mean the ****ed up built-in JAVA in IE ?
I agree about that but once you install Sun's JVM you can configure IE to use Suns's JVM .

So if your JAVA on Windows sucks , check your settings .

I must say that on all the OS 9.1/9.2 Macs at my school LimeWire DOES run like hell. Every time u click that bar at the top to choose the foregroung app, it crashes, and the downloads are lost. It even takes excess of 1 min to just start up and connect. The OS 9 memory management sux too - no matter how much memory we allocated to Flash 5 (over 200MB), it kept running out, and then freezing. I wound up e-mailing myself a zip file with all of my flash files and finishing my project at home on XP. They have an OS X disc, but won't use it because it doesn't run any of their software (Final Cut Pro 2, Photoshop 5.5, Flash 5 and Commotion Pro 4). Sad, how much they spent on those machines to have them do this, and so slowly too . . .

Yes os 9 is not very stable, and limewire for os 9 I guess is not well-written either yet.

To they guy with macs at school -- you can only allocate as much memory as you have ram available. Flash 5 takes a lot of ram to work well. It may help to set a correct amount of virutal memory to support the amount you allocate to applications. On os 9, virtual memory can safely be set to a maximum of 1/2 total ram + total ram -- you should write in this sum in the virutal memory box.

If your school gets a ram upgrade (the computers really should have 512 ram or more, as ram is cheap), they should install os X. Most, if not all of that software runs within os X under its os 9 "classic" mode (basically os 9 boots up from within os X). This does require a greater amount of ram (as does os X itself), however I have had few memory issues with running classic mode with Fireworks, a web browser, Dreamweaver, and Flash running simultaneously with 512 meg of ram.

LimeWire for MacOS9 is almost exactly the same code, as it is for any other system. - So I guess it's well written after all, - but there is no really stable Java Runtime Environment for OS9. The MRJ definitely sucks. It's equivalent to Suns JRE 1.1.8, while 1.4 is the most recent version and 1.3 was released more than a year ago.

dude, what a crass user name. scorpio? just a guess...