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Bittorrent Software on Linux: Part 2
Posted on March 26th, 2007 6 commentsA follow up to my earlier post.
In my post last week I complained about how linux had no real torrent client that could go toe to toe with utorrent. Over the last week or so, I have been trying to follow up on all the awesome comments and suggestions that I got from readers. I found an answer.
Deluge is a Bittorrent client written in python and using libtorrent as a backend. Now, the release in Ubuntu Universe, and even its most recent 0.5 release were nothing to write home about, but the current SVN of Deluge shows serious promise. While I do *NOT* encourage users to try the SVN, as it is under active development (and I don’t want to force the project maintainer to answer a million questions about rapidly changing code) , I do feel that Deluge’s next release could match utorrent, or even surpass it! I found that while Deluge was taking a little longer to bootstrap less populated torrents, and the plugin/preference selection leaves something to be desired, Deluge is making huge progress in the speed area. Once I got torrents rolling, I found that Deluge was averaging about the same up and down as utorrent had been, and without the memory overhead of wine!
In short, I thank everyone for their awesome feedback, and thanks Deluge for stepping up and filling the niche for a full-featured and fast native linux client!
On a somewhat unrelated note, please consider filling out my survey on OpenID use if you haven’t already!
6 responses to “Bittorrent Software on Linux: Part 2”
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“Transmission” is what I use, and I’m quite happy with it.
http://transmission.m0k.org///fatal
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Awesome OpenID support! Read my article in my school’s newspaper about our school providing an OpenID server (http://observer.case.edu/Archives/Volume_39/Issue_21/Story_1554/)
Azureus has always worked well for my torrent needs. -
Thanks! I actually go to Case!
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Pimping my own client a bit
http://code.google.com/p/linkage also based on libtorrent as deluge.No release yet, though svn is quite stable.
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What a small world! I found you on one of my Planet feeds…I think it was Planet Gnome?
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Hahaha, yeah, thats me
hit me up on e-mail or summin, its always an adventure to run into someone in this world
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