FrostWire now available on Gentoo Linux’s Portage package system

We want to give thanks to William L. Thomson Jr from Gentoo for making FrostWire available to people running Gentoo ~arch or unstable ~x86 or ~amd64.

If you are a Gentoo Linux user you can now just do:

emerge frostwire

And as William says:

it will bring in all deps, compile, install, make desktop menu entries, launcher, etc

If you’re interested here’s the package

About Gentoo

The Gentoo Linux operating system (pronounced /ˈdÊ’É›ntuː/) is a Linux distribution based on the Portage package management system. The development project and its products are named after the Gentoo penguin. Gentoo package management is designed to be modular, portable, easy to maintain, flexible, and optimized for the user’s machine. Packages are normally built from source code, continuing the tradition of the ports collection, although for convenience, some large software packages are also available as precompiled binaries for various architectures.

Source: Wikipedia

Cows also share

User luisdrk from Caracas,Venezuela has posted this picture on flickr. Pretty cool stuff. it’s actually a parody of this picture by Jesus Molina.

It’s really funny because we had our inspiration from a similar source, we looked for the words “frost wire” in flickr, and we saw frozen barbed wires, this is the one that caught our eye and then we talked to a great graphic designer who did the logo for us.

Reply with your creations on this post’s comments section.

FrostWire #7 on download.com - Week ending March 09 - 253,102 downloads in one week

FrostWire #7 - Week ending March 09 - 253,102 downloads in one week

We keep getting more and more downloads each week.
Thanks to everybody that downloaded.

Please help us Spread the word

Blogs and pages talking about 4.13.5

These are the pages we found talking about our latest FrostWire release. Please let us know if we missed any on your comments.

• P2P Net
• Daily Freeware Download
• Web Files Leech
• Freeware Files.com
• My OSX Freeware
• Cool OSX Apps
• Softexia.com
• Posting King

Remember to support FrostWire, all you gotta do is Link Us and tell everybody they can install it in all their computers for free.

Ubuntu FrostWire Demo by alinuxworld.com

The guys from A Linux World put together this Ubuntu demo, check it out:

Frostwire linux
Uploaded by mattgeb85

FrostWire 4.13.5 has been awarded the 100% CLEAN award by Softpedia.com

Toda we have received the honor of being a 100% CLEAN certified Mac software by the people of Softpedia.

Mac and Linux users are the first to try 4.13.5 while we get ready for a massive update.

Soon a press release with the new features and changelog.

Support FrostWire by Linking to it, About 4.13.5

This is to all bloggers that use FrostWire.
We need your support to keep growing the network.

If you have some space left on your side bar, or on some pages of your blog, or myspace page, or whatever page you have, please link to us.

Here’s a code snippet you can use:

<a href="http://www.frostwire.com/?from=linkus"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2333/2261516536_2a473c5342.jpg?v=0" border="0"></a>

More snippets and banners here

About next release
With the adition of a new coder to the team, FTA, version 4.13.5 is well on its way.

• Added Smiley support to the Chatroom. Developer note: irc.jar is now part of our build process.
• Fixed wording on spanish translation.
• Fixed bugs on the media player and playlists on Preview.
• Fixed bug on search box auto-focusing while a search was running.
• Fixed typo in Polish. Thanks Radek.
• Fixed i18n bug, where non english operating system could never keep english as the preferred language, it would always default to the OS language after restarting FW. Thanks to FTA our new dev team member.

Windows Connection Issues Patch

Today, January 15th 2008, we have introduced a test patch to make the connection issues go away. The patch should work with XP. It has not been tested with Vista. Please Try it and give us all your feedback (both XP and Vista users feedback would be greatly appreciated)

Our thanks to FTA for this patch.

The instructions are simple:
1. Download zip file from http://www.mybloop.com/FTA/fixconnecting.zip
2. Close FrostWire completely if it’s running

3. Open the zip file and then click on ‘fixgnutella.exe’

The executable is virus free and it should run without problems (XP and Vista), in very rare situations it could need some kind of “DLL” or additional files.

FrostWire featured on LifeHacker

We’ve just found out we were featured on LifeHacker.com, one of our favorite blogs.

Cheers, and thanks to Adam Pash for writing about us.

FrostWire’s “Buy” button more effective each day

A couple of week’s ago the music industry was a different place. If you did a search on FrostWire for “Metallica”, and you clicked on the “Buy” button, you’d only find versions by other bands of Metallica’s songs available for purchase.

If you try it now, you can legally purchase the entire rooster of Metallica’s songs via the FrostWire’s Buy button after you do a search for Metallica. Songs cost between $0.89 and $0.99 and they come in high quality MP3 format, no DRM!!!!

This is because finally the big record labels decided to drop DRM (you can now play the music you buy on any device, it’s not protected against copying/playing in anyway) and put their music for sale on the AmazonMp3 music store, which is the system FrostWire uses to help artists sell their music and you the user to find the best quality music 100% legally.

Finally the Music Industry started opening their eyes.