RTorrent

rTorrent
Developer(s)Jari Sundell (a.k.a. rakshasa)
Initial release25 January 2005; 19 years ago (2005-01-25)[1]
Stable release
0.9.8[2] Edit this on Wikidata / 19 July 2019; 5 years ago (19 July 2019)
Repositorygithub.com/rakshasa/rtorrent
Written inC++[3]
Operating systemUnix-like
PlatformIA-32, x86-64
Size1.3 MiB
TypeBitTorrent client
LicenseGPL-2.0-or-later[a]
Websiterakshasa.github.io/rtorrent/

rTorrent is a text-based BitTorrent client written in C++,[4] based on the ncurses and libTorrent (not to be confused with libtorrent) libraries for Unix, whose author's goal is "a focus on high performance and good code".[4]

  1. ^ "Earliest known code import". GitHub. Archived from the original on 24 February 2021. Retrieved 17 February 2016.
  2. ^ "Release 0.9.8". 19 July 2019. Retrieved 20 July 2019.
  3. ^ "rTorrent BitTorrent client", rakshasa/rtorrent repo, archived from the original on 18 October 2014, retrieved 14 July 2015 – via GitHub
  4. ^ a b Sundell, Jari, The libTorrent and rTorrent Project, archived from the original on 9 April 2014, retrieved 9 August 2007


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