Transmission Becomes Default BitTorrent Client for Ubuntu
Written by Ernesto on January 30, 2008The 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.
Transmission is already included in the 4th Alpha release of Hardy Heron, and is set to replace the Gnome BitTorrent client that Ubuntu has used up until now. A stable version of Ubuntu 8.04 is expected to be released in April 2008.
Transmission has gained a lot of popularity over the last year, and is considered to be one of the fastest and lightweight BitTorrent clients. It is an Open Source project, and the application is currently available on almost every operating system except Windows. Similar to uTorrent, it focuses on being lightweight, while including all the features a demanding BitTorrent user needs.
The Transmission team describes it as follows: “Transmission has been built from the ground up to be a lightweight, yet powerful BitTorrent client. Its simple, intuitive interface is designed to integrate tightly with whatever computing environment you choose to use. Transmission strikes a balance between providing useful functionality without feature bloat.”
Transmission uses little resources, and we’ve heard of people running it on their routers, NAS devices and even mobile phones. There is also a great WebUI for Transmission, called Clutch. With Clutch you can easily monitor and control your torrents remotely. Today, the Clutch team has released version 0.3, and instructions on how to get started are over here.
Downloads and more information about Ubuntu Hardy Heron can be found in the Ubuntu Wiki.
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Awww, thought it would be uTorrent :p
bad move. rtorrent would be my choice
Isn’t it Clutch version 0.3 not 3.0
No DHT.
Nice try, NEXT!
nice article
uTorrent && wine = SWEET! :)
unfortunately, utorrent isn’t open source and only runs on Wine in Linux
pics or it didn’t happen
[quote comment="276336"]pics or it didn’t happen[/quote]
hah!
I wish they would add support for PG blocklists, as running PeerGuardian on the mac is a royal pain in the ass… The only mac client with blocklist support is Azureus, and it’s a horrible resource hog.
i like deluge, its almost a clone of uTorrent.
nothing beats utorrent + wine.
nothing beats utorrent + wine.
god at least its not old bittorrent client - been fighting hard for this for several releases
Deluge should be the default client in gnome.
Yeah that’s a good news.
The old bittorrent client that comes with earlier releases of Ubuntu was crap.
I agree, Deluge is much better than Transmission.
AT least we have options and not just utorrent and azureus anymore.
Stick with what works and is lightweight - uTorrent all the way.
Transmission? PASS!
Transmission is very simple. It makes sense as a default torrent application. I hope it supports webseeded torrents. Without webseeding I’d have no way to seed my work.
w00t w00t for transmission
Ah, man! I was hoping Deluge would become the default. At first glance, this client seems to be quite featureless. And why would I want to open a separate window to see the Details of the Torrent (like files, etc.)?? That’s just… odd.
Tranmissions needs more features (or at like a Transmission+ with more features).
Deluge crashes too much for my sake. uTorrent + wine
No DHT… thats a good point
And no windows support…
Transmission is alright, I wish uTorrent would hurry up with mac OS support. Transmission is limited in fuctions, but still gets the job done.
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