Free filesharing software for linux

Phex is a P2P filesharing client which is based on the Gnutella network. Phex offers advanced functions and integrates all common Gnutella extensions like multi-source downloads and advanced search features.
Main features:
Phex is a FREE of spyware and adware
- Phex never containd any kind of spyware, adware or any other kind of bundled software.
Multi-plattform support
- Whether you use MAC OS X, Linux, Solaris, or Windows Phex is able to run on them all. All you need is a operation system that offers a Java 1.4 Runtime Environment.
Multi-source downloads (Swarming)
- Often the file you like to download is available on different hosts. Phex will request different segment of the file from each host in parallel. After successfully downloading a segment Phex will merge it with the other segments of the file. This results in a much higher download speed. If a host is too slow the segment is split during download and given to an another host. To make sure you never run out of hosts Phex is able to find new download hosts by itself with the automatic search functionality.
Advanced configuration options
- Phex offers very advanced configuration options. Much more then many other clients can offer. Especially advanced user can configure Phex according to there needs and are able to tune and see the effect of different settings.
Passive searching and snooping for files
- With the passive search functionality Phex is able to constantly monitor the traffic that goes through the network and collect search results that match your passive search term. Also Phex snoops the traffic for new download candidates you need to finish your downloads faster. This type of searching is usefull for longtime monitoring of available files on the network.
Other features include:
- Multiple searches.
- Ultrapeer and compression technology for reduced bandwidth.
- Integrated chat.
- Browse host support.
- Bitzi metadata lookup.
- MAGMA support.
Enhancements:
- The GUI received many smaller improvements and a multitude of lesser and bigger changes happened under the hood.
- Download-side THEX integration was added, so poisoned files are no longer possible.
- The upload architecture was redesigned and a far leaner security system is used for better performance and a vastly reduced memory footprint.
- Many bugs were fixed.

Nicotine is a feature complete client for the SoulSeek filesharing network.

You can use it to upload, download, search and chat. You can keep a "buddy" list and basically everything else a SoulSeek client is supposed to do.

Nicotine is a feature complete client for the SoulSeek filesharing network. You can use it to upload, download, search and chat. You can keep a "buddy" list and basically everything else a SoulSeek client is supposed to do.

If you are familliar with PySoulSeek, youll probably notice a striking resemblance in appearance.

ShareDaemon is a multi-platform filesharing client for eDonkey2000 network. Designed in clean modular setup with separated networking and interface code, ShareDaemon runs on Windows, Linux, BSD, Solaris and Mac OS X platforms.

ShareDaemon is free and open source software, licenced under GNU General Public Licence.

ShareDaemon is split into a number of smaller programs, so-called modules. The most important module is the core module, which handles all the networking and files related things. The core can be run in the background as a daemon or service, and it does not produce any graphical output.

For controlling the core, we are currently providing two graphical user interfaces: wxInterface and webInterface.

wxInterface which is what one could call "a standard interface" - it is a window, somewhat similar to eMule interface. It "talks" to the core through unix sockets or TCP/IP on non-unix platforms.

webInterface is designed for remote controlling. It also runs as a background service/daemon on the same machine as the core runs and "talks" to the core, but instead of having a "usual" graphical interface, webInterface provides a web-browser based access. All you need to access your downloads from a remote location is a web browser, and you have full control of your downloads without installing any software in the remote computer.

PCLinuxOS is one of the world�s up and coming providers of a Linux Desktop Solution. With a small but dedicated development team, PClinuxOS delivers Desktop Ready Software that harnesses the power of the Open Source Community.

PCLinuxOS Preview 81a is an English only self-booting live cd that runs entirely from a bootable CD without installing anything on your computer.

Data on the CD is uncompressed on the fly allowing up to 2 GB of programs on one CD including a complete Xserver, KDE 3.3.2 Desktop, Open Office 1.1.4, Thunderbird 1.0, Firefox 1.0, p2p filesharing and much more, all preconfigured and ready to use!

In addition to the livecd mode, you can also install PCLinuxOS to your hard drive using our easy to use livecd installer, assuming you like PCLinuxOS and it runs well on your computer.

PCLinuxOS is currently under heavy development and should be considered beta software. PCLinuxOS should work on most modern hardware and comes with advanced hardware detection. PCLinuxOS runs best on computers with at least 256 megabytes of memory.

PCLinuxOS is FREE and its released under the GPL license.

xMule project is a multi-platform clone of the popular eMule client for the eDonkey filesharing network.
Currently supporting various Linux/Unix/BSD platforms, it aims at higher stability and portability than the competitors.
Whats New in 1.13.6 Release:
- This version focuses primarily on Unicode support, which is now virtually complete.

Dyne:bolic GNU/Linux is a live bootable cd, containing a whole operating system that works straight from boot, without the need to install or change anything on the hard disk.
If you like and want to have it on harddisk you can simply copy the /dyne directory on your computer: the simpliest installation ever!
Dyne:bolic is user-friendly: recognizes your hardware devices (sound, video, firewire, and USB), and offers a VAST range of free software applications for multimedia production, audio and video manipulation, sound composition and synthesis, 3D modeling, photography, peer2peer filesharing, web browsing, desktop publishing, word processing, cd burning, email, encryption, remote conferencing, funky games, a world atlas navigator and even more.
Advanced features include: a complete environment with the most advanced multimedia applications available on GNU/Linux, automatic clustering joining the CPU power between any other dyne:bolic on the local network, capability to work well on old PC (Pentium1 64Mb) and even XBOX game consoles, support to save and encrypt personal data and settings on a usb key. Dyne:bolic is shaped on the needs of media activists and artists to promote free speech as a tool for the production and not only the fruition of digital and analog
informations.
There is no company nor organization behind dyne:bolic, it is a grassroot effort to spread free software and the spirit of sharing information and knowledge.
Enhancements:
- OpenMosix automatical startup and discovery
- Mozilla suite 1.7.5 (Firefox and Thunderbird dropped)
- Mail encrypted with Sylpheed 1.0.3, GpgME and Enigma
- Virtual keybord for alternative access devices
- Nest now remembers xBox PAL/NTSC switch
- Wider PC laptop hardware support
Updated software:
- Blender-2.36, Ardour-0.9-beta28, Gimp-2.0.6, Xine-1.0
- Fix to Rezound linkage to libFOX 1.2
- Various fixes and documentation updates
- Shiny new splash screen in gtk2
- In case you have a DOCK (/dyne directory copied in your harddisk) you should upgrade it by using the one in this release. Booting the CD just answer YES when youll be prompted to UPGRADE..

Fair NAT is a script for configuring NAT on dedicated Linux routers. This is the home of my linux router shaper script which allows something like fair bandwidth sharing among clients in the local network. The script is not great or anything - please dont expect the holy grail here - I just thought Id publish it because many people helped me write it and maybe someone has some use for it. I bet there are still lots of things that can be improved. Sorry about the crappy design of this page, I dont have time to put more effort in better looks.
You have a certain number of Clients (User A - User N) in your LAN which are connected by a Switch (or a Hub or BNC) to the Linux Router which is supposed to act as a gateway to the internet. The trouble now is, User B has a lot of downloads running and User C uploads stuff day and night, which leaves User A who only wants to use an interactive SSH shell in the rain, since B and C already use up all bandwidth the internet connection offers.
What we need to do is to share available bandwidth fairly among clients. In order to achieve this, I first tried several searches at Google and Freshmeat. This turned up quite a lot of results, like the Linux Advanced Routing & Traffic Control HOWTO which is a must-read and also contains great scripts, like the Wondershaper for single users. Another great general purpose script I found was HTB.init, which doesnt do anything by default, but gives you an easy way to setup HTB queues. In case you prefer CBQ, theres a CBQ.init too. If you dont know what Im talking about, read the HOWTO above or continue reading here.
Since I never found a script that did exactly what I wanted, I decided to write my own. Its designed to be an all-I-need script, therefore it does not just setup Traffic Shaping, but Masquerading and Port Forwarding too. In short, it does everything that has to do with IPTables and Traffic Control. I use HTB (Hierarchical Token Bucket) to share bandwidth among clients (one class per client). On top of that I added a PRIO queue to prioritize interactive traffic on a per-user basis. On top of PRIO I set SFQ to treat connections fairly. In version 0.72, experimental support for IPP2P to recognize peer-to-peer traffic was added.
This is the simplified scheme for routing:
HTB class (for bandwidth sharing)
|
-- PRIO (for prioritizing interactive traffic)
|
--- Interactive: SFQ (to treat concurrent connections fairly)
--- Normal: SFQ
--- High-Traffic: SFQ
[ --- P2P: SFQ (if IPP2P support is enabled only) ]
I bet this can still be improved and Im always interested in ways to do so. In case you want another class structure, this can be done by replacing the parent_class and user_class functions in the script. See CLASS_MODE in Configuration section and the function documentation in the script for details. Feel free to send me your own functions with a short explanation, if you want me to make them available for everybody.
Heres a "real" graphic, which shows the complete qdisc/class structure on $DEV_LAN if you use the unmodified example configuration file. This graphic was created using a hacked version of Stef Coenes show.pl script and GraphViz. Click here to see it, but I warn you: its quite big. Heres a similar picture, which includes IPP2P support. Note that there are more filter rules (the blue arrows) now which put the filesharing traffic into the users prio band 4.
Main features:
- This is a variable with a space-separated list of features that should be enabled. Default is all enabled if you dont set this variable.
- PROC:
- Allow Fair NAT to change some system variables in /proc, like setting /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward to 1.
- MODULES:
- Try to load kernel modules for QoS first.
- RESET:
- Fair NAT will replace all existing iptables rules with a very basic (empty) configuration. Not healthy for firewalls. You can disable this feature to keep the original rules in place. See Firewall Support below.
- NAT:
- Allow Fair NAT to configure NAT. You could disable this if you prefer to set this up yourself / let your firewall do it.
- FORWARD:
- Allow Fair NAT to configure Port Forwarding. Same as NAT, you can disable this if you dont need it.
- QOS_DOWN:
- Shape download traffic. If you know a little bit about traffic shaping and believe that download shaping is completely useless, feel free to disable this.
- QOS_UP:
- Shaping upload traffic can be disabled also. If you disable this and QOS_DOWN also, you could use Fair NAT for setting up NAT and Port Forwarding only, although thats not really the purpose of the script ;-)
- TOS:
- Allow Fair NAT to modify the TOS (type-of-service) field of packets. Right now, Fair NAT relies on this TOS field for shaping, so using this feature is highly recommended.

Futurosoft Ares Plugin for Apollon is a plugin for giFT (apollon) that connects to the Ares peer-to-peer filesharing network.

This file is for Ubuntu, Kubuntu and other distro based in debian.