Free peer to peer file sharing software for linux

MUTE File Sharing is a peer-to-peer network that provides easy search-and-download functionality while also protecting your privacy.
It compiles as a fast, native application for many platforms (no Java, no Python, etc.).
MUTE protects your privacy by avoiding direct connections with your sharing partners in the network. Most other file sharing programs use direct connections to download or upload, making your identity available to spies from the RIAA and other unscrupulous organizations.
MUTE is based on research, and experiments show that it works quite well. MUTEs ant-inspired routing is light-weight, robust, and adaptive. Results from experiments in real MUTE networks show that the collective behavior of MUTE nodes quickly finds the shortest (or fastest) routing path between two nodes on the network.
Enhancements:
- This release fixes bugs in MUTEs initial connection to the network upon startup.
- MUTE has also been upgraded to Crypto++ 5.4, so it should now compile using GCC 4.1.

Web Sharing is a small tray applet for sharing files on the web.

Publish anything on the Internet or your local area network at home, office or school from a folder on your hard disk with just a few clicks of a mouse!

Real-Time Proactive Secret Sharing Library is an implementation of the Shamirs secret sharing scheme and Herzbergs proactive secret sharing algorithm.

Real-Time Proactive Secret Sharing Library targets the RTAI OS. It includes a port of GNU GMP to RTAI, which is used for multiple precision arithmetic operations.

to run the rt-pss

./start_pss ID (*) ID should be between 0 and PSSW_NUMBER_OF_MACHINES-1(this constant is defined in src/share_app_pssw.h)
(*) each local RT-PSS should be executed with a
different ID starting with 0
(*) you must have superuser privilegies to do that.

to stop the rt-pss


./stop_pss (*) be sure that no applications that uses the RT-PSS are
running.
(*) you must have superuser privilegies to do that.

developing RT-PSS Apps

There is a demo application available in the directory: examples/GetShare. The RT-PSS API can be consulted in the file README.API

Shezhu Resource Sharing System project is an application for scheduling and booking shared resources such as rooms and equipment.
The client only needs a modern Web browser.
It has a user friendly point and click interface, visual filters for making block/repeat bookings, concurrent users and double booking prevention, allows local site customization, and supports configurable academic term/semester blocks.
Main features:
- Portable - client only needs a modern web browser
- Point and Click - almost no typing required
- Intuitive - simple, obvious, consistent and user friendly
- Innovative - visual filters for making block/repeat bookings
- Powerful - concurrent users and double booking prevention
- Configurable - local site customization supported
- Useful - built in support for configurable academic term, semester and session blocks
- Free!
Requirements
In order to run or build the Shezhu Resource Sharing System you need some third-party software available on your machine.
Client
The client needs a modern web browser and the best browsers for this application are Firefox, Mozilla (including the Netscape branded equivalent and Gecko derivatives such as Galeon) and Microsoft Internet Explorer. The newest versions of all these browsers will work best. This application also works with the Konqueror and Opera browsers but these have some issues which may affect functionality. All browsers need JavaScript enabled. Any of these browsers may not work properly (or at all) depending on the operating system they are running under. Text based browsers (such as Lynx) are not supported.
For a comprehensive list of supported client browsers and operating systems refer to this browser compatibility chart from the most recent release of the application.
Server
The server needs recent versions of the Apache web server and the MySQL database server.
The server has only been tested on Redhat9 and FedoraCore3 Linux/i386 platforms although there is no specific reason why it should not work on other Linux platforms and distributions.
Development
Rebuilding this application from source requires a standard Unix development environment with the sh, make, cc, cpp, sed and awk utilities. Also required are RCS, Perl (5.6+) and the ImageMagick program. Also required is RPM to build a distribution. All these programs would probably come as standard in Linux distributions, other platforms may not have all of them by default.
Enhancements:
- This release adds support for Apache2 and multi-site installations, internal restructuring, a better installation tree, and improved access control management.

KoffeePhoto is a free software that allows you to manage your personal photo library. You can manage your photo albums with KoffeePhoto, and share them with your friends or family very easily. Your albums will be saved on the KoffeePhoto network, which will let you access them anytime and anywhere.

KoffeePhoto allows you to pick your photos on your hard disk or on your camera, and to organize them in albums. Thanks to several ways of sorting your photos, by date, topic, place, person, or any combination of these categories, you will always have an easy way to find all your photos again.

KoffeePhoto saves your whole photo library on its peer-to-peer KoffeePhoto network. This is carried out in a completely seamless way. Your photos are encrypted to ensure confidentiality, and are saved without any loss in quality (no format reduction, no data compression), and no storage expiration date. You can access your photo library from several computers if you wish. In case of any data loss, you can recover your whole photo library very easily!

retroshare provides a private P2P file sharing software.
Retroshare is a cross-platform private P2P sharing program. It lets you share securely to your friends, using a web-of-trust to authenticate peers and OpenSSL to encrypt all communication. RetroShare provides filesharing, chat, messages, and channels.
Main features:
- A Private Peer to Peer Network which allows you to share information with only the people you want to.
- Reliable Identification and Authentication of your friends.
- Plus an Introduction Scheme which connects you to the friends of your friends, and facilitates network growth.
- Encrypted Communication, ensuring all shared information is known only to you and your peers.
- A Communication Platform which can potentially support services such as Secure Email, File Sharing, Video or Voice over IP and Messaging
- A Decentralised Social Sharing Network designed **For the People**
- with no dependancies on any corporate system or central servers.
Enhancements:
- First release with Web of Trust Authentication!
- Downloads are automatically resumed
- New Directory search interface.

Packet Garden is a project that allows you to grow a world from network traffic.

Packet Garden captures information about how you use the internet and uses this stored information to grow a private world you can later explore.

To do this, Packet Garden takes note of all the servers you visit, their geographical location and the kinds of data you access.

Uploads make hills and downloads valleys, their location determined by numbers taken from internet address itself.

The size of each hill or valley is based on how much data is sent or received.

Plants are also grown for each protocol detected by the software; if you visit a website, an HTTP plant is grown. If you share some files via eMule, a Peer to Peer plant is grown, and so on.

edonkey plus is a free program peer to peer (P2P) for the peer to peer network Edonkey 2000, Overnet etc.
Basic aMule Tips
- NEVER run aMule as root.
- If you are behind a firewall or router, be sure that the ports have been opened. The default ports are 4662 (TCP). 4665 (UDP) and 4672 (UDP). If these are blocked, you will receive a "LowID" which results in fewer available sources for the files you are downloading.
- Obtain an appropriate server.met: e.g., if you are a dialup, using a large server list is not appropiate.
- Set your temp and shared directories in Preferences->Directories
- To recursively select a certain directory, right-click over it.
- You should *NOT* share
- Your temp download directory!
- Your /etc directory
- Probably not your /var, /lib, /boot, or /usr directory
- Certainly make sure that any really confidential files (password files, private SSH keys, credit card numbers :) are *not* shared. So generally do not share your entire home directory, although you might want to share some files or directories in it.
- Remember that you get certain download priveledges with those clients (aMule, eMule, etc users) to whom you upload files, in the form of reduced queue waits.
- Please note that compilation with optimizations is supported. However, if you pull a Gentoo, we will probably just tell you to recompile aMule and/or your system with sane compiler-flags before we will attempt to address the problem.