Bitflu
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Developer(s) | Adrian Ulrich |
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Initial release | 2009 |
Stable release | 1.52 / July 11, 2015; 9 years ago (2015-07-11)[1] |
Written in | Perl |
Operating system | Unix-like |
Available in | English |
Type | BitTorrent client |
License | Artistic License 2.0 |
Website | bitflu |
Bitflu is an open-source, BitTorrent client by Adrian Ulrich. It is available for Unix-like systems and is written in Perl.[2]
Features
- 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 [3] and blogs,[4][5] 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.[6] 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".[7]
See also
References
- ^ "Bitflu". bitflu.workaround.ch. Retrieved 2021-03-28.
- ^ "Bitflu (About)". Adrian Ulrich. 2012-07-11. Retrieved 2013-12-01.
- ^ "Bitflu - Freecode". Dec 11, 2014. Archived from the original on January 12, 2014. Retrieved January 11, 2014.
- ^ "bitflu: A tiny torrent daemon". 9 April 2013. Retrieved January 11, 2014.
- ^ "Notes: Bitflu". 29 October 2008. Retrieved January 11, 2014.
- ^ "Bitflu Torrent Client - Overview". Dec 13, 2013. Archived from the original on January 11, 2014. Retrieved January 11, 2014.
- ^ "Comments for Bitflu". January 11, 2014. Archived from the original on January 12, 2014. Retrieved January 11, 2014.
External links
- Official website
- v
- t
- e
BitTorrent
- BitTorrent, Inc.
- Vuze, Inc.
- Bram Cohen
- Ross Cohen
- Eric Klinker
- Ashwin Navin
(comparison,
usage share)
- BitTorrent (original client)
- BitComet
- BitLord
- Deluge
- Free Download Manager
- Flashget
- FrostWire
- Getright
- Go!Zilla
- KTorrent
- libtorrent (library)
- LimeWire
- µTorrent
- Miro
- MLDonkey
- qBittorrent
- rTorrent
- Shareaza
- Tixati
- Transmission
- Tribler
- Vuze (formerly Azureus)
- WebTorrent Desktop
- Xunlei
(comparison)
(comparison)
(comparison)
Category
Commons