Web site: deluge-torrent.org Category: Network Subcategory: Peer2Peer Clients Platform: BSD, Linux, OS X, Windows License: GPL Interface: GUI, CLI, Web interface First release: September 25, 2006 Deluge (previously: gTorrent) – a cross platform, BitTorrent client created in 2006 by two members of ubuntuforums.org – Zach Tibbitts and Alon Zakai. It uses various front ends, including … Read more
Web site: uftp-multicast.sourceforge.net Category: Network Subcategory: File Transfer Platform: BSD, Linux, OS X, Solaris, UNIX-like, Windows License: GPL (for non-commercial usage) Interface: CLI First release: July 6, 2001 UFTP – an encrypted multicast file transfer program, designed to securely, reliably, and efficiently transfer files to multiple receivers simultaneously. This is useful for distributing large files … Read more
Web site: www.gnu.org/software/wget/ Category: Network Subcategory: Download managers Platform: AmigaOS, BSD, HP-UX, Linux, MorphOS, OpenVMS, OS X, UNIX-like, Windows License: GPL Interface: CLI First release: January, 1996 Wget (previously: Getur) – a free software package for retrieving files using HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and FTPS the most widely-used Internet protocols. It is a non-interactive command line … Read more
Web site: tools.suckless.org/sic/ Category: Network Subcategory: IRC Clients Platform: Linux, UNIX-like License: MIT Interface: CLI First release: 2005 SIC – an extremely fast, small and simple irc client. It reads commands from standard input and prints all server output to standard output. It consists of less than 250 lines of code. It is the little … Read more
Web site: Category: Network Subcategory: File Transfer Platform: UNIX-like License: GPL Interface: CLI First release: February 1997 LFTP – a file transfer program supporting a number of network protocols (ftp, http, sftp, fish, torrent). Like BASH, it has job control and uses the readline library for input. It has bookmarks, a built-in mirror command, and … Read more