Cabos is Limewire for Minimalists

Filed under: Windows, Macintosh, Freeware, P2P

Cabos is Limewire for Minimalists

by Lee Mathews Jul 8th 2008

We've tried plenty of Gnutella clients that just aren't any good, and usually end up back with Frostwire or Limewire by default. Thankfully, Cabos has an excellent alternative for Windows and Mac users.

Cabos doesn't support torrents, and it doesn't have a built in media player, but who needs that anyway? Most of us have favorite apps for handling those files anyways, and Limewire probably isn't either of them. It simply searches the Gnutella network, displays your results, lets you filter and sort them six ways from Sunday, and downloads them quickly. It even offers basic iTunes integration.

There's no lime green splashed around the UI, just a tranquil, muted gray, and 21 languages are supported. It's totally ad-free and there are no nags - Cabos just does what you want it to and doesn't get in the way.

Tags: filesharing, gnutella, limewire, p2p, peer to peer, PeerToPeer

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Doranwen said 9:17PM on 7-15-2008

I was going to try this out, but every time I download it (either through Firefox or Free Download Manager) it says it's done at 28 kb. Something must have errored on them.

Jason said 4:38AM on 7-17-2008

would this program return the same search results as limewire and frostwire?

Lee Mathews said 4:40AM on 7-17-2008

They're all searching the Gnutella network, so realistically they should return the same results.

Grubbanax said 4:29AM on 9-24-2008

what's with the "the java software cannot be loaded" error?

I've tried everything! Downloading the latest java... adding the path into the PATH Variable..

What is wrong? How can I make it work?

Josh said 5:44PM on 9-24-2008

Will this get me in trouble with the RIAA?

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