Web site: mldonkey.sourceforge.net/Main_Page Category: Network Subcategory: Peer2Peer Clients Platform: Linux, MorphOS, OS X, UNIX-like, Windows License: GPL Interface: GUI First release: 2001 MLDonkey – a multi-platform multi-networks peer-to-peer client. Originally, it was the first open-source client to access the eDonkey network. The protocol was reverse-engeneered using an efficient protocol sniffer, Pandora. MLDonkey runs as back-end … 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
Web site: www.kde.org/applications/internet/ktorrent/ Category: Network Subcategory: p2p clients Platform: Linux, OS X, UNIX-like License: GPL Interface: GUI First release: 2005 KTorrent – a BitTorrent application by KDE which allows you to download files using the BitTorrent protocol. It enables you to run multiple torrents at the same time and comes with extended features to make … Read more