Azureus-BitTorrent client crowned most popular open-source software

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The Azureus-BitTorrent Client won the overall most popular open-source software award in SorceForge.net’s first annual Community Choice Awards, the developer collaboration site said Thursday.The winning projects in a variety of other categories were also announced at the LinuxWorld Expo this week.

The finalists, which were taken from nearly 250,000 voters, included open source applications ranging from customer relationship management and firewalls to anti-virus and Xbox Media Center innovations.

via TechWeb

What do you think? Does Azureus really deserve this award?

Also which BitTorrent client do you use and why? Do you use any other P2P softwares?

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Posted on April 7th, 2006 | Category: General |

11 responses so far,

1. 1

   Shivaranjan

   April 7, 2006 at 9:21 am

   Azureus deserves this award for sure.. I have been using for more than a year. I find it very user friendly and offers lots of features. The new versions simply superb. But it does have heavy memory footprint.

2. 2

   Madhur Kapoor

   April 7, 2006 at 9:40 am

   Ya i have used Azeureus and i found it really useful . The other P2P i use is Kazaa .

3. 3

   johntp

   April 7, 2006 at 10:29 am

   Shiva- Azureus may be good but it will eat up your system resources. On the other hand uTorrent is lightweight and fast and will be more popular than Azureus soon.

   Madhur- Is Kazaa spyware free?

4. 4

   Shivaranjan

   April 7, 2006 at 12:37 pm

   I have mammoth system so till now azureus has not caused a big load for my Killer Rig…. heh he heh

   Kazaa is not spyware free…. See the link below…
   http://www.imilly.com/kazaa.htm

5. 5

   johntp

   April 7, 2006 at 12:56 pm

   Shiva- I have not used Azureus recently, is it that fast as people say? I use uTorrent.

   Madhur- Stop using Kazaa, I once I had to reinstall Windows because of all the spyware it brought to my system.

6. 6

   karthiksn

   April 7, 2006 at 2:39 pm

   Some versions were spyware thats what i heard about Kaaza and about Azureus its good not very bad but it has the best feature of scheduling the torrent which makes me love it

7. 7

   johntp

   April 7, 2006 at 10:44 pm

   Yes, I read about the scheduling feature of Azureus on your blog. I have been thinking of giving it a try.

8. 8

   Ashwin

   April 8, 2006 at 4:39 am

   BitTornado rulez for me!

   Although I have never used Azureus (128 mb RAM yaar) , I have used almost all the other clients and no client is as good as BitTornado!

9. 9

   johntp

   April 8, 2006 at 4:55 am

   Then I have got to try BitTornado

10. 10

    Madhur Kapoor

    April 8, 2006 at 9:59 am

    Thanks John for the info .

11. 11

    johntp

    April 8, 2006 at 10:00 am

    Madhur - You are welcome