= BitTornado =
[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTornado| For details see also wikipedia.]]

BitTornado can be reached on the [[http://www.bittornado.com/|BitTornado-homepage]].
The corresponding installation-packages are overviewed [[https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bittornado|here]].

For Ubuntu 9.10 a more detailed desription is located [[http://packages.ubuntu.com/karmic/bittornado |here]].

== Basic Idea ==
BitTornado is a deamon for tracking and downloading torrents. Bittornado does not require an instance of an x-server session. Hence Bittornado can be run in the shell completely.
This ability makes BitTornado attractive to be run in a server or in the background of desktops.

== Advanced Usage ==
As the commandline may not be very handsome to use, there are existing clients to connect to the deamon and control it.
This means, a user can connect to the BitTornado with additional software to the client from a different PC and manage his 'downloads' from there.

=== Alternatives ===
There are other BitTorrent clients working in a similar way:
-[[http://mldonkey.sourceforge.net/Main_Page |MLDonkey Project]]