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Bitflu

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Developer(s)
  
Adrian Ulrich

Stable release
  
1.52 / 2015-07-11

Written in
  
Perl

Initial release
  
2009

Development status
  
Active

Operating system
  
Unix-like

Bitflu

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

Contents

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 and blogs, 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. 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".

    References

    Bitflu Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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