rTorrent and libTorrent

The main information screen for libTorrent and rTorrent
Developed by	Rakshasa (Jari Sundell)
Latest release	0.7.9 - 0.11.9 (lib) / 28 November 2007; 369 days ago
Preview release	0.8.4 - 0.12.4 (lib) / 19 November 2008; 12 days ago
OS	Unix-like
Type	BitTorrent
License	GNU GPL
Website	libtorrent.rakshasa.no

rTorrent is a text-based ncurses BitTorrent client written in C++, based on the libTorrent libraries for UNIX (which is not the libtorrent library developed by Arvid Norberg), "with a focus on high performance and good code"^[1].

[edit] Technical details

The library differentiates itself from other implementations by transferring data directly between file pages mapped to memory by the mmap() function and the network stack. On high-bandwidth connections, it is claimed to be able to seed at many times the speed of the official client. ^[1]

rTorrent packages are available for various Linux distributions and Unix-like systems, and it will compile and run on nearly every POSIX-compliant operating system, such as FreeBSD.

rTorrent uses ncurses and is suitable for use with screen or dtach; it uses commands such as Backspace to load a torrent, ^S for start and ^D for stop and delete torrent. It supports saving of sessions and allows the user to add and remove torrents. It also supports partial downloading of multi-file torrents. In the release of rTorrent-0.7.0 support for BitTorrent protocol encryption is also implemented.^[2] PEX, DHT and initial seeding were recently implemented in rTorrent.

rTorrent can be controlled via XML-RPC over SCGI.

[edit] See also

Free software portal

• Comparison of BitTorrent software
• KTorrent

[edit] References

1. ^ ^{a b} The libTorrent and rTorrent Project - Trac
2. ^ [1] Announcement of rTorrent-0.7.0

[edit] External links

• rTorrent homepage
• rTorrent for Darwin/Mac OS X
• nTorrent - An rTorrent GUI
• rtGui - a PHP/Web interface for rTorrent using XML-RPC
• wTorrent - a php/xhtml web interface for rTorrent
• rTWi - an rTorrent Web interface
• rtorstat - rTorrent status webpage generator : rtorstat does not require xmlrpc support, but, instead, it uses the saved session data in order to create the status page. Therefore, it is a much simpler implementation with very limited features.
• Hottest rTorrent's patches written by Josef Drexler
• Howto: Use rtorrent like a pro
• rrssdl - An RSS Feed Downloader For TV Shows : designed to be used with rTorrent.

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