Bitflu Explained
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
Notes and References
- Web site: Bitflu . bitflu.workaround.ch . 2021-03-28.
- Web site: Bitflu (About) . Adrian Ulrich . 2012-07-11 . 2013-12-01.
- Web site: Bitflu - Freecode. January 11, 2014. Dec 11, 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20140112010348/http://freecode.com/projects/bitflu/comments. January 12, 2014. dead.
- Web site: bitflu: A tiny torrent daemon. 9 April 2013 . January 11, 2014.
- Web site: Notes: Bitflu. 29 October 2008 . January 11, 2014.
- Web site: Bitflu Torrent Client - Overview. https://web.archive.org/web/20140111214444/http://sefod.eu/redirect_20140111.html. dead. January 11, 2014. January 11, 2014. Dec 13, 2013.
- Web site: Comments for Bitflu. January 11, 2014. January 11, 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20140112010348/http://freecode.com/projects/bitflu/comments. January 12, 2014. dead.
