Bitflu
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| 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
- ↑ "Bitflu (About)". Adrian Ulrich. 2012-07-11. Retrieved 2013-12-01.
- ↑ "Bitflu - Freecode". Dec 11, 2014. Retrieved January 11, 2014.
- ↑ "bitflu: A tiny torrent daemon". Retrieved January 11, 2014.
- ↑ "Notes: Bitflu". Retrieved January 11, 2014.
- ↑ "Bitflu Torrent Client - Overview". Dec 13, 2013. Retrieved January 11, 2014.
- ↑ "Comments for Bitflu". January 11, 2014. Retrieved January 11, 2014.