Free gnutella software for linux

LimeWire is a multi-platform Gnutella client with nice features like auto-connect, groups, browse host, multiple search, upload throttling, connection quality control, library management and sophisticated filtering. LimeWire is built for the both the novice and power user.
LimeWire allows you to search for multiple files at the same time, available in several different languages, and is most famous for its ease-of-use and cross compatibility.
LimeWire will run on Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Sun, and other computing platforms.
Main features:
- Ease of use - just install, run, and search
- Ability to search by artist, title, genre, or other metainformation
- Elegant multiple search tabbed interface
- "Swarm" downloads from multiple hosts help you get files faster
- iTunes integration for Mac users
- Unique "ultrapeer" technology reduces bandwidth requirements for most users
- Integrated chat
- Browse host feature--even works through firewalls
- Added Bitzi metadata lookup
- International versions: Now available in many new languages.
- Connects to the network using GWebCache, a distributed connection system
- Automatic local network searches for lightning-fast downloads. If youre on a corporate or university network, download files from other users on the same network almost instantaneously!
- Support for MAGNET links that allow you to click on web page links that access Gnutella.

JVending project bridges P2P networks and wireless delivery of content to mobile devices. Due to high latency of wireless connections, it is not practical to directly hook up the mobile devices to the peer network, so I have taken a different approach with JVending.

A user sets up a personal provisioning server on their PC and hooks it into the network. Through the P2P network, we create a federation of provisioning servers. The mobile devices use the federated provisioning servers as content portals.

JVending differs from P2P systems, such as Gnutella or "Project JXTA" reference implementation, in the following ways. JVending provides:

1. Catalog management
2. Device detection, which delivers the appropriate content based upon the type of browser or device
3. Web based browsing of content, so you can share with your friends on a wired or wireless network, after you have already collected the content.
4. The ability to search for and distribute packaged archives on the peer network.
5. Web links tying together the network.
6. PPG integration for pushing content to mobile devices.

For 2005 - 2006, the major goals of JVending (roughly in order of importance) are:

1. Expanding P2P support, including more in the area of wireless messaging (SMS)
2. JSR-124 compliance
3. Performance testing and monitoring capability
4. Multimedia server and J2ME support. This covers full integration between the MMS Client and the provisioning server.

Setting up the Environment

Follow these steps:

1. Make sure that you have J2SE 1.4.2 JDK installed. If not, go to http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/download.html and download and install the JDK (not JRE). I have not tested with J2SE 1.5 JDK, so it may or may not work with that version.
2. Download the jvending-standalone.zip file from the JVending project site.
3. Unzip the file into a directory of your choice, say /jvending
4. Set the JAVA_HOME environmental variable, depending on your OS. In windows, you can do this through the Control Panel/System/Advanced/Environmental Variable: JAVA_HOME =
EXAMPLE: JAVA_HOME=c:Programsj2sdk1.4.2_06

Starting JVending

1. Go to the bin directory and click on the run.bat (for windows) or run.sh for Unix.
2. The first time you start JVending, you will see a JXTA Configurator screen show up. Type in your user name and password/verify password. Click OK.
3. Wait 10 seconds for JVending to finish its startup sequence and then go to http://localhost:80/jvending/login. If you get a 404 error, wait a few more seconds and try again. Login ID/Password: admin/admin. Click "Submit Query" button. You will now see the JVending home page.

Guarddog is a firewall configuration utility for Linux systems. It is aimed at two groups of users. Novice to intermediate users who are not experts in TCP/IP networking and security, and those users who dont want the hastle of dealing with cryptic shell scripts and ipchains/iptables parameters.
Main features:
- Easy to use goal oriented GUI. You say what the firewall should do without having to explain all the details of how it should do it.
- Application protocol based. Unlike other tools, Guarddog does not require you to understand the ins and outs of IP packets and ports. Guarddog takes care of this for you. This also reduces the chances of configuration mistakes being made which are a prime source of security holes.
- Doesnt just generate the firewall once and forgets it. Guarddog lets you maintain and modify the firewall in place.
- Hosts/networks can be divided into Zones. Different zones can have different security policies for different.
- Supports the following network protocols: FTP, SSH, Telnet, Linuxconf, Corba, SMTP, DNS, Finger, HTTP, HTTPS, NFS, POP2, POP3, SUN RPC, Auth, NNTP, NETBIOS Name Service, NETBIOS Session Service, IMAP, Socks, Squid, pcANYWHEREstat, X Window System, Traceroute, ICQ, PowWow, IRC, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Ping, Quake, QuakeWorld, Quake 2, Who Is, Webmin, ICMP Source Quench, ICMP Redirect, Real Audio, Line Printer Spooler, syslog, NTP, NetMeeting, Gnutella, LDAP, LDAP-SSL, SWAT, Diablo II, Nessus, DHCP, AudioGalaxy, DirectPlay, Halflife, XDMCP and Telstras BigPond Cable, CDDB, MSN Messenger, VNC, PPTP, Kerberos, klogin, kshell, NIS, IMAPS, POP3S, ISAKMP, CVS, DICT, AIM, Fasttrack, Kazaa, iMesh, Grokster, Blubster, Direct Connect, WinMX, Yahoo! Messenger, AH, ESP, Jabber, EsounD, Privoxy, eDonkey2000, EverQuest, ICP, FreeDB, Elster, Yahoo games, Legato NetWorker backups, Novell Netware 5/6 NCP, Bittorrent, rsync, distcc, Jabber over SSL, PGP key server, Microsoft Media Server and gkrellm.
- Protocols not supported in the list above can be entered in directly.
- Supports router configurations.
- Runs on KDE 2 or 3, and Linux 2.2, 2.4 and 2.6 series kernels.
- Supports advanced Linux 2.4+ iptables features such as connection tracking and rate limited logging.
- Firewall scripts can be Imported/Exported for use on machines other than the current one.
- DHCP support.
- Uses a "what is not explicitly allowed, is denied" philosophy. Fail-safe design.
- Well documented with tutorials and reference material.
- Licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License. Is Free and will remain Free.

Mutella is a terminal-mode Gnutella client with an intuitive and easy to use interface. Initially written by Max for himself, Mutella has now been released to the general public for the benefit of all of us in need of a solid, high-performance client.
Mutella supports all the functionality required to participate as a full-featured node in the Gnutella network. "Full-featured" implies support for file search, download and sharing.
Optimized for a high-bandwidth connection, it sets standards for the server performance and stability. However, Mutella is also happy to run on a modest-speed line.
Main features:
- Support for Gnutella version 0.6 protocol including Ultrapeers, both Leaf and Ultra modes
- Improved connectivity via GnuWebCache
- SHA1 Hashing
- Real multiple search support (~100 searches work fine)
- Passive search (all query-reply packets are checked against local search list)
- Automatic re-submission of the queries
- Unlimited download retry
- Automatic search for alternative locations when download fails to start immediately
- Auto-get function for broken downloads
- Beautiful, ergonomic, and information-rich web remote control support
- Many more...

P4 is a fully functional, self-organizing overlay network similar to >>Gnutella and >>Freenet. However, P4 differs in that it provides an API for developing plugin applications on top of the network.

P4 handles the networking and exports functionality for unicast, multicast, user and plugin discovery, and strong encryption and authentication. This frees developers from worrying about networking, and allows them to focus on building real functionality.

Since its release in early 2001, P4 has been surpassed by other general-purpose overlay platforms such as JXTA, Groove, and Microsofts Windows Peer-to-Peer SDK.

Furthermore, many other file sharing networks have long been superior to P4 in terms of routing algorithms, bandwidth management, anonymity, maturity, etc. (Theyre mostly dedicated file-sharing networks, though, not general-purpose networks.)

For these reasons, P4 is not currently as competitive as it was a few years ago. However, its still a viable alternative, especially if youre looking for a simple, lightweight, embeddable networking solution.

MultiMediaBox provides several features in a single application. The program supports the installation and removal of plugins to provide the functionalities.

MultiMediaBox comes with the following plugins already installed:

- MediaPlayer: With this plugin you can play video and sound files in several formats (.mp3, .mpeg, ...).
- P2P: With the P2P plugin, the user can enter in P2P networks like FastTrack, Gnutella and OpenFT.
- SMS: You can send SMS through the clickatell SMS gateway (http://www.clickatell.com).
- MSN: With the MSN plugin, the user can talk with friends in MSN.

The MultiMediaBox project is developing new plugins to make the program even more flexible.

Qtella is a peer-to-peer client using Gnutella protocol.
Sharing files over decentralized networks (peer-to-peer) has become very popular. The Gnutella network (Gnet) is one of these p2p networks which is an open network. The advantage of a decentralized network is that no server exists, which could be a single point of failure. Instead, every client acts as client and server at the same time. Due to this fact these clients are often called Servents. But using decentralized networks has also disadvanteges. The main drawback of missing central servers is that connecting to the net takes longer.
Qtella is one of these servents for Linux for the Gnutella network with many useful features. Most of these features are taken from the comments and suggestions of Qtella users. I want to thank all of these users. Qtella is written in C++ and uses the Qt libraries. It is available for Linux/Unix. Also a developer version for the Sharp Zaurus exists. A Win32 version is currently in progress (an alpha version is already available but its very unstable). [cCOPYRIGHT=1]
Main features:
- display incoming searches
- logging of errors, warnings and infos
- rename files
- move downloads into different directories
- statistics of connections and session
- select different styles
- select different fonts
- show download status in download tab by colored balls
- block specified hosts
- fast connection mechanism
- multiple search
- continue interrupted downloads
- uploads
- limit number of downloads and uploads
- limit upload bandwidth
- separate unfinished downloads from finished ones
- download of several files at once
- test whether file allready exists
- identification of download server
- automatic retry if error, busy, closed
- auto connect list
- KDE integration
- save host list
- handle extended gnutella protocol
- status lines and statistics
- accecpt incoming connections
- download from firewalled hosts
- pong cache to reduce network traffic
- advanced search: "+" word must exist, "-" word must not exist
- resume interrupted downloads