Bitflu is an open-source, BitTorrent client by Adrian Ulrich. It is available for

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systems and is written in

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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 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".

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* {{File sharing 2009 software Free BitTorrent clients Unix Internet software

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