Bitflu

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Bitflu
File:Logo for the Bitflu program.png
Developer(s) Adrian Ulrich
Initial release 2009
Stable release 1.52 / 2015-07-11
Development status Active
Written in Perl
Operating system Unix-like
Available in English
Type BitTorrent client
License Artistic License 2.0
Website http://bitflu.workaround.ch/

Bitflu is an Open Source, BitTorrent client by Adrian Ulrich. It is available for Unix-like systems and is written in Perl.[1]

According to its official page, "Bitflu is a free BitTorrent client. The client was written in Perl and is designed to run as a daemon (7x24h , like mlnet) on Linux, *BSD and maybe even OSX"

Features

As listed on the Bitflu official website:

  • Multiple downloads
  • IPv6 Support
  • Designed to run as a daemon/No GUI: You can connect to the client via telnet and/or http (AJAX)
  • Security: The client can chroot itself and drop privileges
  • Bandwidth shaping (upload+download)
  • Crash-Proof design: Crashes or a full filesystem will never corrupt your downloads again :-)
  • Non-Threading/Non-Forking: All connections are handled in non-blocking state using epoll (or kqueue on *BSD)

Reception

Bitflu has received good reviews, both in open-source software sites [2] and blogs,[3][4] praising it for being lightweight and feature-complete.

Even so, Bitflu seems to be largely unknown, reportedly commanding only 0.000025% of the total BitTorrent traffic.[5] According to one reviewer, this could be due to its non-automated, relatively elaborated install procedure, which could be putting off a "majority of users who can't do anything more complicated than a click-next-until-finish install".[6]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  2. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  3. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  4. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  5. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  6. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.

External links

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