Projects tagged ‘p2p’

Azureus

Azureus is a BitTorrent protocol implementation that offers multiple torrent downloads, queuing/priority systems (on torrents and files), start/stop seeding options, and instant access to numerous pieces of information about your torrents. It includes an embedded tracker that is easily set up and ready to use.

Metrics updated 20 Apr 08

BitTorrent

BitTorrent is a tool for copying files from one machine to another. FTP punishes sites for being popular. Since all uploading is done from one place, a popular site needs big iron and big bandwidth. With BitTorrent, clients automatically mirror files they download, making the publisher's burden almost nothing.

Metrics updated about 3 hours ago

KTorrent

KTorrent is a light and full-featured bittorrent program. It supports: - µTorrent compatible peer exchange - Zeroconf extension to find peers on the local network - WebGUI plugin - RSS plugin - Grouping feature to put torrents into groups ... [More] - UDP Trackers - Port forwarding with UPnP - IP blocking plugin - Importing of partially or fully downloaded files - Support for distributed hash tables (mainline version) - Protocol encryption - Bandwith scheduling - Directory scanner to automatically load torrents in certain directories - File prioritization and partial downloads for multi file torrents [Less]

Metrics updated about 22 hours ago

Transmission

Transmission has been built from the ground up to be a lightweight, yet powerful BitTorrent client. Its simple, intuitive interface is designed to integrate tightly with whatever computing environment you choose to use. Transmission strikes a balance ... [More] between providing useful functionality without feature bloat. Furthermore, it is free for anyone to use or modify. [Less]

Metrics updated 39 minutes ago

Deluge

Deluge is a full-featured BitTorrent client for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows. It uses libtorrent in it's backend and PyGTK for it's user interface. Deluge features a rich plugin collection; in fact, most of Deluge's functionality is available in ... [More] the form of plugins. Deluge was created with the intention of being lightweight and unobtrusive. It is our belief that downloading shouldn't be the primary task on your computer and therefore shouldn’t monopolize system resources. Deluge is not designed for any one desktop environment and will work just fine in GNOME, KDE, XFCE and others. [Less]

Metrics updated about 17 hours ago

Tor

Tor is a toolset for a wide range of organizations and people that want to improve their safety and security on the Internet. Using Tor can help you anonymize web browsing and publishing, instant messaging, IRC, SSH, and other applications that use ... [More] the TCP protocol. Tor also provides a platform on which software developers can build new applications with built-in anonymity, safety, and privacy features. Tor aims to defend against traffic analysis, a form of network surveillance that threatens personal anonymity and privacy, confidential business activities and relationships, and state security. Communications are bounced around a distributed network of servers called onion routers, protecting you from websites that build profiles of your interests, local eavesdroppers that read your data [Less]

Metrics updated 15 May 08

aMule

aMule is a peer-to-peer file sharing application that works with the eDonkey2000 network and the Kad Network, but offers more features than the standard eDonkey client, including support for Kademlia. aMule shares code with the eMule Project and is ... [More] built upon the wxWidgets (formely wxWindows) toolkit, which enables it to support multiple platforms and operating systems. [Less]

eMule

eMule is a peer-to-peer file sharing application that works with both the eDonkey network and the Kad network. The distinguishing features of eMule are the direct exchange of sources between client nodes, fast recovery of corrupted downloads, and ... [More] the use of a credit system to reward frequent uploaders. Furthermore, eMule transmits data in Zlib-compressed form to save bandwidth. [Less]

mldonkey

mldonkey is a multi-networks (edonkey, overnet, bittorrent, fasttrack-kazaa, gnutella, dc++...) file-sharing client written in Objective-Caml (ocaml). It runs as a daemon, and comes with its own GTK GUI, an HTTP interface, a telnet interface and also supports giFT interface

Metrics updated about 12 hours ago

The Freenet Project

Freenet is a peer-to-peer network designed to allow the distribution of information over the Internet in an efficient manner, without fear of censorship. It is completely decentralized (there is no person or computer essential to its operation) ... [More] , meaning that Freenet cannot be attacked like centralized peer-to-peer systems such as Napster. Freenet also employs intelligent routing and caching to learn to route requests more efficiently, automatically mirror popular data, make network flooding almost impossible, and move data to where it is in greatest demand. [Less]

Metrics updated 14 May 08