My recommendation: Give this version a pass.

I'm a long-time Acquisition user. It's been stable, found most of what I searched for, and hasn't hogged resources on systems with reasonable resources to begin with. I used it for years on an iBook G3. Then a G4 with OS X 10.4 and 1.2gb RAM. Earlier versions performed well on my MacBook Pro 1.8ghz w/ 2gb RAM.

The application itself is easy to use, and has some great features, which made it my preferred (GUI-based, anyway) gnutella client.

The latest version, however, leaves much to be desired - especially basic functionality.

Acquisition is able to connect and download torrents, it fails to connect to the Gnutella network, displaying the red "Connecting..." status message forever. Needless to say, you can't search or download non-torrent files. I checked my router to be sure that the UPnP support worked - the router had no problems opening ports for Acquisition. I tried also at another location, again, with no success.

Support for this application is now totally non-existent. Originally, I figured I'd find a support forum on xlife.org where the old support forum used to be. Now, apparently, it no longer exists. I therefore took the next step in attempting to email the developer. Perhaps he's slaving away on a new release, but I can't tell, since it's been days since I've sent the mail, and I've yet to receive a response.

Finally, I attempted to reinstall the app, in case the latest installation went awry. No joy.

I'll stick with it a little while, with hopes that it will improve. When it worked, in older versions, it was a great little tool for finding files. But I'd recommend that new users give 131.2 a pass.