The anonymous publishing, messaging and file sharing network known as Freenet 0.5 is, in my opinion, finally dead. I first started using Freenet around 2004 a little while before version 0.5 was released. It was a great idea, one that I consider to be very important in today’s world where “Big Brother” is increasingly snooping […]
I’ve been running a Freenet node for a long time. When I first started it up Freenet was at 0.4. A couple of months later it was at version 0.5 and some time after that I was able to run my node 24/7 most of the time. With the exception of occasional downtime due to […]
Over the last few years I have seen a number of answers to that question that go in to considerable technical detail but I think that the main reason to use Freenet Classic Opennet (FCON) [which I will refer to as “freenet” or “freenet 0.5”] is a simple trust issue. You see the current 0.7.5 […]
Having recently announced the release of build 5110, the first new build of Freenet Classic Opennet (FCon) in well over two years it has occurred to me that it would be a good idea to put together a brief walkthrough of the installation process. Because I’m a windows user and have never installed it on […]
[Edit June 8, 2012: The Freenet 0.5 network is effectively dead (see this post for details). While you are welcome to try to make this software work and revitalize it, I know of no currently operating nodes. If you DO get a useable network up and running, DO let me know.] A long overdue new […]