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qBittorrent

qBittorrent
Qbittorrent logo.png Qbittorrent mascot.png
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qBittorrent 3.0.5 maximized on Ubuntu 12.04
Developer(s)Christophe Dumez, Ishan Arora, Stefanos Antaris, Mohamadad Dib[1][2]
Initial releaseMarch 2006; 7 years ago (2006-03)
Stable release3.0.9 (March 16, 2013; 21 days ago (2013-03-16)) [±][3]
Preview releaseN/A [±][4]
Written inC++ (Qt)[5]
Operating systemBSD, Linux, Mac OS X, OS/2, Windows
Available in35 languages[6]
TypeBitTorrent client
LicenseGPLv2+[7]
Websiteqbittorrent.org

qBittorrent is a free software cross-platform BitTorrent client GUI written with Qt4. The program uses libtorrent-rasterbar library for the torrent back-end (network communication) functionality. It is developed by Christophe Dumez,[1] from the University of Technology of Belfort-Montbeliard in France. It was started in March 2006 and has been in active development ever since.

qBittorrent aims to have a small foot-print, to be powerful, intuitive and visually attractive going beyond the current functions widely provided by other applications. qBittorrent is an attempt to provide a μTorrent equivalent that is open-source and multi-platform adding a streaming-like function to let users download-and-play video files. qBittorrent is currently offering functionality comparable to more popular BitTorrent clients such as Vuze but without requiring the Java Virtual Machine. qBittorrent requires Python only for the search engine while other clients such as Deluge and BitTornado require it for the BitTorrent protocol itself.

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History

qBittorrent was started in March 2006 by Christophe Dumez.[1]

Features

Many features present in qBittorrent include:

  • Sequential downloading
  • Unicode support
  • Availability in 35 languages[6]
  • Well-integrated search engine which provides an interface similar to the one in eMule, but actually searches on the most popular search Web sites in background[citation needed]

qBittorrent increased its popularity dramatically in November 2009, when a popular BitTorrent indexing site, thepiratebay.org, switched to magnet links (URIs), as qBittorrent was then the only BitTorrent client in the Ubuntu repositories with working magnet link support.[citation needed]

Windows version

As of September 2012, downloads on Sourceforge indicate the Windows version of the application was the most popular of all platforms that qBittorrent supports. Sourceforge statistics report that 89% of downloads were for the Windows version of the software.[8]

Mac OS X version

As of August 10, 2009, qBittorrent is officially available for the Mac OS X operating system. The DMG (Apple Disk Image) packages are provided by Stefanos Antaris, who joined the project for a university assignment. Although this port of qBittorrent was released recently for this operating system, its developers are hoping users will become interested in this new client.

See also

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References

  1. ^ a b c "AUTHORS", git file (qBittorrent.org) 
  2. ^ qBittorrent official website
  3. ^ qBittorrent Win32 Build, SourceForge.net 
  4. ^ qBittorrent unstable builds, SourceForge.net 
  5. ^ "qBittorrent", Analysis Summary (Ohloh), retrieved 2012-08-23 
  6. ^ a b Localization of qBittorrent, qBittorrent.org, retrieved 2012-08-23 
  7. ^ "COPYING", git file (qBittorrent.org) 
  8. ^ Download Statistics: All Files

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