xMule the X11 Mule is a client for the EDonkey Network peer-to-peer file sharing network, intended to bring it to virtually all the major Unix platforms, with a particular emphasis on Linux.

xMule is a friendly Fork (software) of the LMule client (#Footnotes), which itself was originally a Linux-only port of the EMule client. Due to severe differences between the developers, a new fork was created with the AMule project on August 19 2003; the day that one of xMule s maintainers, Ted R. Smith, was sued by the MPAA.

xMule has since suffered from a negative publicity campaign of anonymous comments by people who claim to use aMule on software review sites such as GnomeFiles and Zeropaid, while promoting aMule, even going so far as to suggest that the xMule project has stopped. [http://gnomefiles.org/comment.phpsoft_id=462] [http://www.zeropaid.com/xmule/]

= Footnotes =

xMule was at one point considered as a new official name for LMule when it was first ported to FreeBSD in early May 2003 and the maintainers effectively lost control of the LMule website. [http://lmule.sourceforge.net/news.php] [http://www.xmule.ws/lmuleorg_takeover.txt]

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