Bitflu

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

Bitflu
Developer(s)Adrian Ulrich
Initial release2009
Stable release
1.52 / 2015-07-11
Written inPerl
Operating systemUnix-like
Available inEnglish
TypeBitTorrent client
LicenseArtistic License 2.0
Websitebitflu.workaround.ch

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 [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. "Bitflu (About)". Adrian Ulrich. 2012-07-11. Retrieved 2013-12-01.
  2. "Bitflu - Freecode". Dec 11, 2014. Archived from the original on January 12, 2014. Retrieved January 11, 2014.
  3. "bitflu: A tiny torrent daemon". Retrieved January 11, 2014.
  4. "Notes: Bitflu". Retrieved January 11, 2014.
  5. "Bitflu Torrent Client - Overview". Dec 13, 2013. Archived from the original on January 11, 2014. Retrieved January 11, 2014.
  6. "Comments for Bitflu". January 11, 2014. Archived from the original on January 12, 2014. Retrieved January 11, 2014.
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