µTorrent was the lightweight BitTorrent client most people used in 2010 to download Linux ISOs, and everything else. Its green-and-white window of progress bars, seeds and peers was as familiar as the browser, and BitTorrent traffic was a large share of all internet bandwidth.
- Vendor
- BitTorrent, Inc.
- Version
- 2.0 to 2.2
- Released
- 2010
- Type
- software
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