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qBittorrent
	; qBittorrent v2.0.0 on Ubuntu Linux v9.10
Developer(s)	Christophe Dumez
Stable release	2.0.1 (2009-12-13; 14 days ago) [+/−]
Preview release	svn (-) [+/−]
Written in	C++
Operating system	Linux, Solaris, Mac OS, Unix
Available in	~25 languages
Type	BitTorrent client
License	GPL
Website	qbittorrent.org

qBittorrent is a free BitTorrent P2P client coded in C++ / Qt4, developed by a Ph.D student (Christophe Dumez) from the University of technology of Belfort-Montbeliard in France. It is based on Libtorrent (Arvid Norbergs) and the Qt toolkit. It was started in March 2006 and has been in active development ever since.

qBittorrent is Free Software that aims to have a small foot-print, to be powerful, intuitive and visually attractive. qBittorrent is offering functionality comparable to larger Bittorrent clients such as Vuze or BitComet.

[edit] Features

qBittorrent is an attempt to provide a µtorrent equivalent that is open-source and multi-platform. As such, it provides comparable footprint, features and user interface.

The main features present in qBittorrent are a Web User interface using Ajax, Automatic filter-based torrent download from RSS feeds, UPnP / NAT-PMP port mapping, DHT, µtorrent Peer exchange, Vuze-compatible protocol encryption, Proxy server, eMule or Peerguardian compatible IP filtering, torrent queuing and prioritizing. One of the strength of qBittorrent which distinguishes it from its competitors is its 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.

qBittorrent increased its popularity dramatically in November 2009, when a popular BitTorrent indexing site switched to magnet URIs, as qBittorrent was the only bittorrent client in the Ubuntu repositories with working magnet link support.^{[citation needed]}

qBittorrent is available in more about 25 languages (Localization page) thanks to volunteer work of its users throughout the World.

[edit] Mac OS port

As of August 10 2009, qBittorrent is officially available on Mac OS operating system. The DMG (Apple Disk Image) packages are provided by Stefanos Antaris who joined the project as part as an university assignment. Although qBittorrent is quite young on this operating system, its developers are hoping users will grow interest for this new client.

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