Azureus: Vuze – Popular Open Source
What is the most popular program at SourceForge.net? Currently it is Azureus. What is Azureus?
Azureus: Vuze is a powerful, full-featured, cross-platform bittorrent client and open content platform.
A bittorrent client that is open source can be usefull for those who would like to make sure there isn’t any spyware or such in the code. But is it the best open source bittorrent client?
At the writing of this article, Azureus has been downloaded 395,622,189 times from SourceForge.net , but even if it is the most commonly downloaded open source bittorrent client – doesn’t automaticly make it the best. However, it is one of the open source projects that is still being updated. Several of the other open source clients that have been popular are no longer being maintained by anyone.
Azureus has been said to use more resources to run than other bittorrent clients, but the competitors that are more resource friendly aren’t open source. Azureus: Vuze is truly a successful open source project with nearly 400 million downloads from SourceForge.net .