Projects tagged ‘internet’, ‘p2p’, and ‘sharing’

Vuze (formerly 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 11 Jun 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 05 Sep 08

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 4 hours ago

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]

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 04 Sep 08

Phex - P2P Gnutella filesharing program

Phex is a cross-platform P2P filesharing client which is based on the Gnutella network. It offers advanced functions and integrates all common Gnutella extensions like * the Download Mesh and Partial File Sharing for decentral swarming ... [More] downloads from multiple sources * Dynamic Querying and the Query Routing Protocol for improved search and network performance * UDP Host Caching for better connectivity and many other optimizations. [Less]

Metrics updated 06 Sep 08

linuxdcpp

Linux version of the popular DC++ client

Metrics updated 06 Sep 08

opentracker

opentracker is a open and free bittorrent tracker project. It aims for minimal resource usage and is intended to run at your wlan router. Currently it is deployed as an open and free tracker instance.

Metrics updated 06 Sep 08

Nicotine+

What's Nicotine? Nicotine is a SoulSeek client written in Python, based on the PySoulSeek project by Alexander Kanavin. It features, among other things, a completely rewritten graphical user interface which uses the PyGTK-2 toolkit and a less strict ... [More] user request policy. What's Nicotine+? Nicotine-Plus is a fork of Hyriand's original Nicotine Soulseek client. [Less]

Metrics updated about 15 hours ago

GNUnet

GNUnet is a framework for secure peer-to-peer networking that does not use any centralized or otherwise trusted services. A first service implemented on top of the networking layer allows anonymous censorship-resistant file-sharing. GNUnet uses a ... [More] simple, excess-based economic model to allocate resources. Peers in GNUnet monitor each others behavior with respect to resource usage; peers that contribute to the network are rewarded with better service. [Less]

Metrics updated 20 May 08