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HeavyMole is an ambitious file sharing and communication application (P2P) released under the GNU General Public License.
Main features are: advanced UDP based communication protocol, distributed handling of queries, advanced query language, filtering of answers, distributed chat,...

HeavyMole runs at present time on MS Windows, GNU/Linux and BSD systems.

Some of the main features:

* advanced UDP based communication protocol: we set up a new P2P protocol which mixes the flooding ideas of Gnutella and data centralization of servers. One feature is that there are NO limitations on the number of users unlike all other P2P applications.
* some central servers are used mainly for chat rooms creation and connection or to find other online users. No other data on users actions are centralized nor can be traced: chat messages, queries, answers, etc... do never pass through the server. As a result, the system preserves a lot of user confidentiality, and HeavyMole servers can run on really tiny systems (take a look at the server hardware comparison).
* advanced query language, filtering of answers, allows several simultaneous requests,...
* you can chat on public rooms, have a private chat with other users, browse their files, suggest them files to download,...
* download queue with full priority control and automated saving and resuming of unterminated downloads. It also allows to download files while preserving the complete directory structure.
* nice, simple, intuitive, but powerful and complete graphical user interface.
* strong code architecture.
* HeavyMole is really portable and can run on lots of system (currently MS Windows, GNU/Linux and BSD systems, while Mac OSX and Solaris versions are planned).