Bitflu
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Bitflu is an open-source, BitTorrent client by Adrian Ulrich. It is available for Unix-like systems and is written in Perl.[2]
| Bitflu | |
|---|---|
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| Developer | Adrian Ulrich |
| Initial release | 2009 |
| Stable release | 1.52
/ July 11, 2015[1] |
| Written in | Perl |
| Operating system | Unix-like |
| Available in | English |
| Type | BitTorrent client |
| License | Artistic License 2.0 |
| Website | bitflu |
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]