Free file transfer software for linux

"You don`t have to be an America Online member to experience the immediate cross-Internet communication made possible by AOL Instant Messenger.
This program allows Internet users to communicate via private, personalized text messages.
The program indicates when friends, family members, and business colleagues are online, making Internet communications faster, easier, and more efficient.
AOL Instant Messenger combines AOL`s popular Buddy List and Instant Message features, enabling users to send and respond to messages immediately."
Enhancements:
- Improved Popups Preferences
- Support for @mac.com addresses
- The wireless icon is the visual indication on the buddy list that a buddy is using a mobile device.
- File Transfer (with Drag&Drop support)
- Displays idle time
- Ability to install anywhere. (Extract everything into a single directory and then run aim with option "--install_dir %path" where %path is the path to directory containing all the libraries)

FSP stands for File Service Protocol. It is a very lightweight UDP based protocol for transferring files.
FSP has many benefits over FTP, mainly for running anonymous archives. FSP protocol is valuable in all kinds of environments because it is one of the only TCP/IP protocols that is not aggressive about bandwidth, while still being sufficiently fault tolerant.
FSP is what anonymous FTP *should* be.
FSP: reliable and bandwidth friendly way to access publicly available data. Some people calls it UDP FTP.
Enhancements:
- use getopt from stdio.h instead of getopt.h in fspscan.c
- fspscan now compiles on AIX and other OS without glibc (hoaxter)
- !! fixed fatal bug from b23. Server sends large packets to clients if
- client request has not prefered reply size inside. This confuses all old fsp clients.
- common/strdup.c removed
- bsd_src/function.c bcopy -> memmove
- removed STDC_HEADER checks, drop support for pre-ANSI compilers started work on alternate SCons based build system
- fspd: use urandom, not random -> avoid hangs on Lin suck 2.6
- build system converted to SCons
- !! fixed directory listing bug in client library introduced in beta23
- improvements to security of FSP clients
- seq. numbers are now randomized
- seed random number generator in fsp clients
- check cmd in received packets
- check pos in received packets

File Beamer is an easy to use file transfer tool. The programm is platform independent. That means it runs with Windows 98/ME/2000/XP, Linux, Unix and MacOS X.

This is made possible by using Trolltechs Qt Library which provides an easy to use GUI toolkit, networking functions and a lot more.

File Beamer is free open source software and was released under the GPL license.

Usage:

Receiving files:

Click the "Receive" tab
If the receiver is behind a firewall or router, check "reverse connection" and enter the senders IP or host name. *
Click the "listen" button. The client can now receive files
When receving a file, a "Save as" dialog appears. Choose a place to safe the file.

Sending files:

Click the "Send" tab
If the receiver is behind a firewall or router check "reverse connection" *
Else input the target IP address or host name and port
Select a file to send either by typing the path or by clicking the "..." button
Click the "Send" button (target must be in listen mode)

libptp2 is a library used to communicate with PTP devices like still imaging cameras or MP3 players (KODAK mc3).
You can download files or tweak camera properties using ptpcam program boundled with libptp2.
Supported Cameras
The list of cameras implementing PTP is constantly growing. Most (if not all) USB still cameras designed after 2002 are supporting PTP. Below is the list of vendors implementing PTP in their cameras:
- Kodak
- HP
- Nikon
- Canon
- Panasonic
- Olympus
- Konica
- Minolta
- Fuji
- Ricoh
- Sony
More are comming...
Please note that if your camera is supporting PTP it does not mean that it is capable of performing all PTP operations (like trigerring capture, uploading files or tweaking properties). Sony cameras are good example of poor PTP implementation where the only thing you can do is downloading files. Sony even breaks the USB specification assigning all its cameras the same product/vendor IDs so dont buy Sony if you want to stay out of problems.
Currently most PTP features are supported. Uploading/downloading files, taking pictures and setting camera properties is supported as long as your camera supports it. However there are many Vendor Extensions that are not supported.
For example Canon uses some proprietary extension operations to take pictures (entering capture mode, extending lens and so on), Nikon introduces proprietary PTP properties.
Unfortunately I have access to couple of Kodak cameras only so to help support extension features you may send me a patch or donate/lend the camera.
Enhancements:
- A number of bugs were fixed, including leaving the camera in an unpredictable state when an I/O error occurs.
- The projects own reimplementation of the old libusb interface (IOCTL_USB_BULK) is used instead of the new URB interface, which is 20% to 50% slower and sometime leads to I/O errors.
- File time preservation across download was added.
- Better capture support was added.
- A bug that caused files over 2MB to be corrupted while downloading was fixed.
- The --loop-capture feature was added.
- Configure errors and parralel build with make -j were fixed.

LeahHTTPd is a fast HTTP server.
Main features:
- Configurable mimetype support
- Specifyable document root and port
- Templated directory listings
- IPv4 and IPv6 supported
- Basic file-transfer resuming (Range/206)
- Completely asynchronous I/O
- Configurable default directory index file
- CGI support (GET/POST)
- HTTP/1.0 and HTTP/1.1 support
- Resource aliases
- Virtualhost support
Installation:
make install
and
cp dist /etc/leahhttpd -Rad

Transfer to Media Device is a script that creates a new Playlist Right Click Menu item for transferring selected playlist items to your iPod via the Media Device Browser.
This script now also supports generic copy to operation for USB mass storage devices. Currently the script will prompt for a destination directory on first copy, in the future this setting will be saved in a configuration file.
This script works with amaroK 1.3beta3 and above.
Usage:
Run from the amaroK script manager. A new menu item will appear in the Playlist right mouse button menu.
Select files in the playlist and Right click -> Transfer to -> iPod for transfering to an iPod.
Select files in the playlist and Right click -> Transfer to -> USB Device for transfering to a USB device.
Enhancements:
- Add support for Creative Nomad Jukebox devices using the kionjb kioslave. Thanks to Ralf T for the patch.

Multicast Dissemination Protocol project is a protocol framework and software toolkit for reliable multicasting data objects including files and application memory blocks. A primary design goal of MDP is to provide a reliable multicast protocol approach which is suitable for reliable dissemination of data over both wireless and wired networks.

MDP software has been demonstrated across a range of network architecture and heterogeneous conditions including; the worldwide Internet MBone, bandwidth and routing asymmetric network connections, high delay satellite networks, and mobile, radio networks. MDP integrates numerous multicast protocol advances including highly robust, packet-based erasure correction techniques and adaptive group timing mechanisms.

The present MDP software toolkit includes a library with a well-defined API. Several example working applications including a multicast file transfer applications and a very basic multicast chat application are also provided. To learn more and/or download the software see the following sections.