Free peer to peer lending software for linux

PowerFolder project consists of a program to synchronize folders over the internet or on a local net. It uses peer-to-peer technology to exchange the files. This means you do not need a hosting server. Every client holds a local copy of the folder.
It can be used to exchange every type of data for example music, photos, own documents or videos. PowerFolder automatically detects changes and synchronizes (configurable) !
- Documentation
- Screenshots
- Frequently asked questions (FAQ)
- Forum (Support and Community)
- Synchronisation profiles
- Team
- PR-Set (Logos, Banners, etc)
Main features:
- File synchronisation between multiple PCs over internet or lan
- Supports multiple languanges
- Offers Private Networking
- Auto-detects changes
- Runs silently in system tray
- Easy-to-use user interface
- Easy installation and update, windows installer available
- Synchronize profiles control how folders get synchronized
- Pure peer-to-peer network. No server required
- MP3/ID3 tag support
- Out-of-Browser start (Java WebStart)
- Built-in compression of up- and downloads (GZIP)
- Link support for downloads like edonkey links
- Cross platfrom compatibility. PowerFolder is written completely in Java
- Automatically detects nodes on local net like windows network
- Intelligent upload / download strategy. Upload can be limited
- Integrated support for dynamic-dns addresses
- Full icon support for folders on windows systems
- Open-source
The main difference between PowerFolder and other Filesharing programs is, that files get automatically downloaded when someone adds new.
People with same interests group together in folders. If anybody has new stuff, he automatically sends it to all folder members.

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.

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!

POE (Perl Object Environment) parcels out execution time among one or more tasks, called sessions. Sessions multitask through cooperation (at least until Perls threads become mainstream). That is, each session returns execution to POE as quickly as possible so it can parcel out time to the next.
POE includes a high-level component architecture. Components are modular, reusable pieces of programs. They perform common, often tedious tasks so programmers can work on more interesting things.
Several POE components have been written to handle client, server, and peer networking tasks. Because of them, POE has become a convenient and quick way to write multitasking network applications.
Anyone can write and publish POE components. The CPAN contains a [steadily growing list] of them. The POE Components List includes ones that havent been uploaded to the CPAN yet.
POE provides medium- and low-level concurrency functions. Components use them to perform their tasks. The functions are also available to programmers who prefer to avoid the overhead of components at the expense of writing more code. Components and custom sessions coexist because they all use the same basic functions.
POE supports graphical toolkits such as Tk and Gtk. It is the only Perl programming framework that does this. It also supports Curses, HTTP, and other user interfaces. POE programs can present multiple user interfaces at once.
Enhancements:
- A number of stability and performance fixes were done, including making the tests less prone to race conditions, improving the installation process, eliminating known resource leaks, and reducing CPU use when combined with Tk.

iPeer is an application to develop and deliver rubric-based peer evaluations, to review and release student comments, to build progress report forms online, and to analyze evaluation results.
iPeer features a built-in user management system, data import/export, and an easy-to-use installer.
Main features:
- Assignment creation.
- Custom rubric creation.
- User management system, including bulk import of students and groups.
- Student reminders via email.
- Reminder scheduling.
- Profile management.
- Student Feedback System.
- Release Comments to Students.
- Wizard Feature, Step by Step Guide for New Users.
- Easy-to-Use Installer.
- Simple Evaluatoin for TBL (Team-Based Learning).
- Export Results to Excel or txt files.
- Student Self Registration.

Robot World aims to be a distributed physical environment inhabited by programmable robots, spanning across countless computers on the internet in true peer-to-peer fashion.
Robot World components:
- Parser / compiler compiles robot programs into byte code, stored in a .xml file
- Inject - send a robot program to the world
- RobotWorld - the world simulation program
- dsm - the bytecode disassembler
- rowo.y - language grammar file
parser
Compile a robot. Creates an .xml file from a .r file
$ parser sample.r
dsm
Disassembles a robot .xml file.
$ dsm sample.xml
robotworld
Testbed. Receiving server for "inject" - see below.
$ robotworld
inject
Send robot to world. "robotworld" must be running.
$ inject sample.xml

VidTorrent is a protocol for global scale cooperative real-time streaming over the Internet. At a high level, VidTorrent is a peer-to-peer protocol that builds an adaptive overlay mesh suitable for real-time streaming.

The protocol works by aggressively probing for bandwidth and minimizing latency. On the same time, the protocol continuously monitors and dynamically adapts the mesh to match the underlaying network topology and node capabilities.

VidTorrent is more than just a protocol from an end users perspective. VidTorrentLive provides application infrastructre for fostering communities around real-time media, similar to what BitTorrent? does for the file sharing community and Skype for internet telephony users all over the world.

In one such application, XPat-TV, we are experimenting with forming social groups within expatriate communities. These groups are created by VidTorrent co-casters, sharing live TV broadcasts from their home country.