主题：九月份sourceforge表扬的是bt 的客户端软件, 呵呵. -- ppw

Downloading files, whether it's a large ISO (CD images), promotional MP3 from your favorite local band, Open Source application, or music video, is one of the most common uses of the Internet. Until recently, download servers that served these files were centralized. If the server was overloaded, offline, or 'Slashdotted' you were out of luck. BitTorrent, another SourceForge.net-hosted project, changed this by providing a way to download files in a decentralized way by leveraging, in a transparent fashion, hundreds of end-user computers. Using this method the files are almost always available and the transfer speed is generally faster than a centralized solution, particularly with larger files. SourceForge.net's September 2004 project of the month is Azureus, a powerful Java-based BitTorrent client. The project is immensely popular on SF.net. Besides being in our top 5 most active projects (out of 80,000+) it enjoys on average 75,000 downloads a day. (Wow!) Azureus runs under Windows, Linux, OS X, among others and is licensed under the GPL. The SourceForge.net team is proud to make Azureus Project of the Month.