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BitTorrent is a tool for copying files from one machine to another. FTP punishes sites for being popular. Since all uploading is done from one place, a popular site needs big iron and big bandwidth. With BitTorrent, clients automatically mirror files they download, making the publisher's burden almost nothing.
KTorrent is a light and full-featured bittorrent program. It supports:
- µTorrent compatible peer exchange
- Zeroconf extension to find peers on the local network
- WebGUI plugin
- RSS plugin
- Grouping feature to put torrents into groups
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- UDP Trackers
- Port forwarding with UPnP
- IP blocking plugin
- Importing of partially or fully downloaded files
- Support for distributed hash tables (mainline version)
- Protocol encryption
- Bandwith scheduling
- Directory scanner to automatically load torrents in certain directories
- File prioritization and partial downloads for multi file torrents [Less]
Deluge is a full-featured BitTorrent client for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows. It uses libtorrent in it's backend and PyGTK for it's user interface.
Deluge features a rich plugin collection; in fact, most of Deluge's functionality is available in
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the form of plugins.
Deluge was created with the intention of being lightweight and unobtrusive. It is our belief that downloading shouldn't be the primary task on your computer and therefore shouldn’t monopolize system resources.
Deluge is not designed for any one desktop environment and will work just fine in GNOME, KDE, XFCE and others.
ohloh notes:
*deluge is written in python, but includes rasterbar-libtorrent, so it's recognized as written in C++.
*ohloh doesn't register svn moves, commit-stats are incomplete. [Less]
LeechCraft is an extensible crossplatform multiprotocol opensource download manager. Currently it supports BitTorrent, HTTP, RSS/Atom feeds, allows you to chat in IRC a bit and a lot more.
The open source FoxTorrent Firefox extension that lets you stream torrents as they download, from your web browser, with zero configuration needed.