Transmission Becomes Default BitTorrent Client for Ubuntu

torrentfreak.com — The popular cross-platform BitTorrent client Transmission, praised by its users for being full-featured but lightweight, is now officially the new default client for Ubuntu. Jan 30, 2008 View in Crawl 4

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rainserpent Jan 31, 2008

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I use Deluge on Ubuntu and it has worked well for me (I also use Firefox). I was surprised that Canonical did not pick it as the default bit torrent client. Oh well, what do I know? If I upgrade, I will just not select it or will uninstall it. Now if we can just keep these nutjobs from suing all the torrent hosts (witness Demonoid & The Pirate Bay), we might just have something to download and share.

unionaire Feb 1, 2008

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only problem is that it is much slower than utorrent. I've done a test to download the exact same torrent files at approximately the same time, but Transmission is so much slower, i guess it is probably due to the lack support for DHT

solarwind24 Feb 1, 2008

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KTorrent is also very beautiful. Low on resources, runs on my router and looks very nice (UI very similar to uTorrent). <a class="user" href="http://ktorrent.org/">http://ktorrent.org/</a>

harbinger67 Feb 1, 2008

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...uTorrent has fanboys? Really? Wow. What kind of dorks get militant over a f**king bittorrent client.

snotrokit Feb 1, 2008

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tried port hopping, encryption, etc. etc. Bring my laptop to work with a T1 and the same torrents fly.

Closed Account Feb 1, 2008

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I must agree with Lazaryn. Deluge simply causes all of my other Internet apps to slow down. I have to watch web pages load up like it was 1992 on a cable modem connection.

jonshipman Feb 1, 2008

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Their upgrades surely work better than Windows upgrades.Can't comment on Linux upgrades, but surely some 3rd party apps have some preferences that don't migrate well...

acidtoyman Mar 9, 2008

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You can do this in Deluge, but you have to set the option first.

bahmak2004 Apr 7, 2008

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yes it sucks! deluge is beautiful. But I like transmission-cli

demonoidcom Dec 2, 2008

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YOU KNOW SOMETHING. transmission might be a good client, but how good is it if it's not for all operating systems. so stop kissing thier ass. this is nothing special. and for all you that love to kiss ass. get a life lamers:)