It was created out of two reasons:
There is no GUI for the linux version of StealthNet,
and to manage the file sharing tool through your Web-Browser. The whole sharing tool runs in the background on one computer and can be managed from any remote computer through your Web-Browser.
Advantages over other anonymous P2P networks
As a matter of course StealthNet is not the only client for anonymous file sharing. There are a lot of others available, like ANts or MUTE. However, StealthNet has one important advantage: In comparison with its competitors it is under _active_ development by a developer team and feature requests from the community are incorporated.
Some more StealthNet advantages are:
Straightforward handling, even for beginners: Install, enable port forwarding and you are good to go! Anonymous P2P can´t be easier
Modern and user-friendly graphical user interface (GUI): Due to a GUI similar to eMule users are able to work in no time with StealthNet
Fast file transfers: As measured by the fact that StealthNet is an anonymous P2P client it has great download rates, especially when it comes to small files (depends on several factors)
Has anti-flood-measure in place to avoid network sabotage like flooding the network with useless data packets or so
Command line client for systems with Mono support like Linux, OSX and so on is available
http://stealthnetwebui.sourceforge.net/
It is necessary to have JAVA and MONO installed. This working fine here.
