<p>YACY was developed and implemented by Michael Christen.
<p>YaCy was developed and implemented by Michael Christen.
<p>You can hire me for professional consultancy, customizations or integrations. I am specialized on Network Architecture/Security, Information Retrieval and on Billing Systems in the telecommunication market. If you like to have further information about my professional work, please ask for a CV.
<p>Any feed-back is welcome!
<p>Please email me at <imgsrc="grafics/mcemailh.gif">. Please be specific in the subject, so that I can distiguish your mail from the many spam mails I get every day.
<p>Since YaCy is a web-application, you can test it also online!
There are currently a few well-known public installations of YACY that you can use to test the search functions.
There are currently a few well-known public installations of YaCy that you can use to test the search functions.
You will see there a lot of 'locked' menu's that you can only use if you are the peer-owner.
However, the search function is public.</p>
<p><b>Please respect the search results as a pure proof-of-concept.</b> It's upon <b>you</b> to further enhance the search results by participation in the network with your own peer.</p>
<p>If you download the software, you must agree to the applications GPL-based <ahref="License.html">license</a>.</p><br>
<h3>2nd Step: Install Java</h3>
<p>To run YaCy, you need an installation and/or support for Java2.
You can <ahref="http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/download.html">download the Java Runtime Environment "JRE"</a> from the <ahref="http://java.sun.com">Sun Microsystems Java Page</a></p><br>
<h3>3rd Step: Download YaCy</h3>
<p>The Release comes in different flavours: a general one with application wrappers for Unix/Linux, Macintosh OS X and Windows, and a specialized Windows version with Windows installer. Please choose from either one.
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<p>If you download the software, you must accept the <ahref="License.html">License</a>.</p>
<p><b>Latest Release:</b>
The latest YaCy release version is 0.45<br>
The latest YaCy release version is 0.46<br>
Nightly builds from compiles out of SVN can be obtained from <ahref="http://latest.yacy-forum.de/">http://latest.yacy-forum.de/</a>.<br>
<p>Main releases of YaCy are hosted on <ahref="http://www.yacy.net/yacy/">yacy.net</a>, <ahref="http://developer.berlios.de/projects/yacy/">yacy@BerliOS.de</a> and <ahref="http://freshmeat.net/projects/yacy/">yacy@freshmeat.net</a>.<br>
Download Mirrors and YaCy Flavours:
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<li>Generic release of YaCy (all platforms with J2SE 1.4.2: Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, Solaris):</li>
<li>Windows-flavour release of YaCy (same code as generic release, but with convenient Windows-Installer):</li>
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<p>Main releases of YaCy are hosted on <ahref="http://www.yacy.net/yacy/">yacy.net</a>, <ahref="http://developer.berlios.de/projects/yacy/">yacy@BerliOS.de</a> and <ahref="http://freshmeat.net/projects/yacy/">yacy@freshmeat.net</a>.</p>
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<h3>4th Step: Proceed With Installation</h3>
<p>Please go to the <ahref="Installation.html">installation page</a>.
<b>If you upgrade from a previous version of YaCy, please migrate your data</b>
(simply move the DATA directory to your new application directory).</p><br>
<h3>Final Step: Your Contribution is Appreciated</h3>
<p>Open-Source/Freeware needs your contribution!<ul></ul>
Even if you are a non-programmer or first-time user of this software, <b>you</b> can help to
<ul>
<li>improve and extend functionality,</li>
<li>security,</li>
<li>ease-of-use and
<li>usability</li>
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of this distribution by
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<li>giving feed-back,</li>
<li>report bugs,</li>
<li>suggest new functions or</li>
<li>even get your hands on the source code or documentation.</li>
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When you find a bug, please help to further improve the application by sending me a bug-report.
The report should describe a complete set of actions that are necessary to reproduce the error.
Please contact me <ahref="Contact.html">here</a>. Thank you!</p>