Free peer to peer 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.

Fast Messaging Peer to Peer (FM P2P) is a simple P2P program that forms a TCP-based overlay network by which a user may chat or share files.

Why name this FastMessaging when its anything but fast? Simply put, it is a reference to the underlying functioning of the application. TCUP, the protocol used to do the overlay network (the network we build ontop of an existing TCP/IP network) is message based.

We think it is Fast because there is no queueing or long searches. FastMessaging is built to construct moderately sized networks which have reasonably high responsiveness at the cost of global information sharing.

Perhaps thats not the best reasoning, but it works. Its just a name and the application needs a better name anyway. For now I just refer to it as FM.

KDE Internet share wizard is a Kommander script that can help you share your internet connection over LAN.
Overview:
I was on a LAN and I needed to share my internet connection because we didnt have any router.
I found this to be quite difficult, but after some searching on internet I found a very good explanation for making this work.
Now, Ive made a WindowsXP like internet connection sharing guide for all who wants to share their internet connection easy and fast.
Usage:
copy the tar.gz file contents into /usr/bin and then run:
kdeinternetshare.sh - English
For all those who are unsure how to use the guide, it should be good to stick to the default settings.
This is only a quite simple guide so suggestions and improvments are welcome.
System requirements:
- Kommander

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.

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.

Parallel::Workers::Shared is a simple Perl module.

Parallel::Workers::Shared requires no configuration files or environment variables.

Metalinks is an effort to promote the use of Peer to peer technology to aid web administrators in keeping their bandwidth down. metalink project defines a usable and simple way to share metadata in hash and digest forms using XML.
Data integrity is getting a larger problem on the net and trusted secure bandwidth is often limited. The solution is to use encryption to ensure the resulting data is correct, which enables you to pump the data through an unsecure connection with possible data corruption. Simple because it can be detected, the changes of going to work with the wrong file are very slim.
These metadata pointers can be used by modern P2P networks to identify and gather the right data, therefore the metadata XML record is a bit like a link. Hence the name metalinks.
The good thing about XML is that it is machine readable. Using XSLT we can also make this human readable. So, opening a metalinks record in your browser will result in a simple description of the file and P2P links you can click on.
After gathering the data, the integrity can be as securely checked as the amount of metadata that is available in the metalink XML record. This means that the reciever can check the SHA1, MD5, SHA512 and others provided in the record.
Enhancements:
- This release adds support for pieces, which is a list of hashes for parts of the file.
- The new hashlist option allows you to export all the hash information, which is good for integration and hash verification list generation.