Free bittorrent. software for linux

BitTorrent is a FREE software 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 publishers burden almost nothing.

Net::BitTorrent::PeerPacket is a Parse/Build Peer Packets from BitTorrent.

SYNOPSIS

# Encode a packet
my $binary_packet = bt_build_packet($key1, $value1, $key2, $value2);

# Decode a packet
my $parsed_packet = bt_parse_packet($binary_data);

Net::BitTorrent::PeerPacket handles parsing and building binary data shared between BitTorrent peers. The module optinally exports a single subroutine for building packets and another for parsing packets, as well as, a constant for each packet type defined by BitTorrent.

qBittorrent is a bittorrent client written in C++ / Qt4 using the good libtorrent library (By Arvid Nordberg).
qBittorrent aims to be a good alternative to all other bittorrent clients. The Author is Christophe Dumez, French Student in computer science (IT).
Main features:
- Fast resume of unfinished downloads on startup (no need to recheck files)
- Unicode Support
- Connection through proxy server support
- Download only some files within a torrent
- Scan regularily a folder and add automatically torrent files within to download list
- Drag n drop of torrent files to GUI
- Limit Upload / Download Speed
- Limit number of simultaneous connections
- User can set share ratio
- UDP Tracker support
- IP Filter support
- Display number of peers, complete / partial sources for each download
- Languages supported: English, French, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Korean, German, Catalan, Polish, Dutch, Turkish, Greek, Russian, Swedish

EZtorrent project is a program that simplifies the process of publishing content via BitTorrent.

EZtorrent automates the process of generating .torrent metainfo files, as well as starting trackers and seeders.

Although its very easy to download files BitTorrent, distributing your own files via BitTorrent yourself is not a comparatively straightforward process. You need to carefully generate .torrent metainfo files, start a tracker process, then start a seeder process for each individual .torrent file. EZtorrent combines all of this into one, easy step. Heres a "Quick Start" version of how easy it is to distribute BitTorrent content with EZtorrent:

Download and install BitTorrent according to its instructions.

Download EZtorrent, unpack the source code, run ./configure, make, and make install. See the INSTALL file for more information.

Run the following commands:

ezt create mytorrents /var/www/html/torrents /var/mytorrents
www.example.com 6969

Now, copy some files into /var/mytorrents

ezt start # Or "ezt restart", if ezt is already running

Thats it. ezt reads a list of all the files in /var/mytorrents. For each file, a corresponding .torrent file is created and placed in /var/www/html/torrents. Presumably this directory is published over the web with Apache, or some other HTTP server, where others can find them. Then, ezt starts a tracker process running on TCP port 6969 (the above example uses www.example.com as the DNS name of the machine running EZtorrent). Finally, ezt starts a seeder for each .torrent file.

New files can be added to, or removed from, /var/mytorrents at any time. After adding or removing files, run "ezt restart". ezt takes care of creating any new .torrents that need to be created, removing any obsolete .torrents of removed files, and starting or stopping the corresponding seeders. It is also possible to create different directories for different sets of files. You just need to specify a separate TCP port for each directory; ezt also takes care of starting (or stopping) a separate tracker process for each configured directory and port.

Although this is all that you need to know about using EZtorrent, be sure to review some additional important information in INSTALL and NEWS files, and EZtorrents manual page.

GSTorrent is a Bittorrent client/server system. A daemon program handles all the file transfers as a Bittorrent client. The GSTorrent daemon also acts as a server for an external GUI client.
The objective is to have a relatively small Bittorrent client, which runs on a small computer without a graphical interface and to control this server from a different machine.
An example of this type of architecture is the mldonkey client/server system for the edonkey protocol.
Enhancements:
- The torrent hash problem is fixed.
- The upload/download rate settings finally work correctly.
- A better torrent selector.

QTorrent is a BitTorrent client that uses the Qt widget-set. QTorrent allows you to have several torrents open at the same time from within the same program window, offering you easy overview, access and management through a list-mode.

Every torrent also has its own page where you can control things like upload speed and upload slots. A page that shows some statistics of all open torrents is also available.

To use QTorrent, just download the tarball, extract it somewhere and run the qtorrent binary. Installing QTorrent is not necessary.

CTorrent is a BitTorrent client written in the C programming language, known to be a very robust and mature programming language, which produces fast and optimized applications. There are compilers for most operating systems, making programs written in C easy to port.
It currently runs on most Linux variants, MacOS and FreeBSD, but it hopefully run on Windows aswell! CTorrent is built as a console program, which means that it doesnt require any graphical components (such as an X server) on the machine you are running it on, you can even run it remotely through a terminal if you wish.
While a lot of people prefer a GUI (Graphical User Interface) for this kind of applications, there are quite a few people who run "console only" servers and want to use them to download files in the background. CTorrent can help you do exactly this, assuming you are downloading from the BitTorrent network.
Main features:
- Primary purpose of CTorrent is to provide a way to download files off the BitTorrent network.
- Runs on most Linux distributions, FreeBSD and MacOS.
- Does not require an X server, can be run as a consoleprogram from a shell (locally or remotely)
- Programmed in pure C, which means small and lightning fast executables.
- Opensource. Download the source-code of CTorrent and customize to fit your needs (requires C-programming skills)
- Has the ability to create new torrent-files (for seeding and sharing etc)
- Uses very little CPU and memory resources.

BitTornado is a torrent downloader for Linux.
BitTorrent is a tool for distributing files. BitTornado is extremely easy to use and downloads are started by clicking on hyperlinks. Whenever more than one person is downloading at once they send pieces of the file(s) to each other, thus relieving the central servers bandwidth burden.
Even with many simultaneous downloads, the upload burden on the central server remains quite small, since each new downloader introduces new upload capacity.
Enhancements:
- T-0.3.16 was a huge success; the crashing bug seems to have been squashed flat, thank you so very much wxWidgets and wxPython. As a result, after a few very minor changes, here is T-0.3.17, a new stable release. This replaces the rather archaic T-0.3.7 as the latest stable version.