Bittorrent Software on Linux: Part 2

A 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!