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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Utorrent no thanks,i will never use it again since the creator of utorrent have been sleeping with the enemy…Transmission is not bad but would like a blocklist in it.I agree that deluge crash all the time.
I will stick to KTORRENT.
transmission rules
[quote comment="276509"]Utorrent no thanks,i will never use it again since the creator of utorrent have been sleeping with the enemy…Transmission is not bad but would like a blocklist in it.I agree that deluge crash all the time.
I will stick to KTORRENT.[/quote]
utorrent is only for windows morons we are talking about linux
I’ve been using Deluge as well. It’s come a long way. The ui is very close to utorrent.
It has block list support via plugins. Really the plugins make it extensible or minimal as you need.
But I understand why it’s not default for Ubuntu/Gnome. It’s still a young project.
Yes,i agree with you XABBOTT.
Using utorrent is a nonsense under linux.Windows apps under linux pffff.
I have made the swith to linux because i was sick of winblow$…
Will be my first anniversary in febuary with ubuntu and very happy with it.
no where i d/l from allows dht so its ok to leave out infact its good for the noobs
http://www.seedmore.org
kornflake
[quote comment="276386"]nothing beats utorrent + wine.[/quote]
except for deluge.
Utorrent rocks anyway and all others i don’t know.also Ubuntu is a stable linux flavor but utorrent should come out with a linux version too bcoz if this transmission if it is not having the DHT support then it sucks.
Deluge is prepping up to be a good native Linux client. I have used transmission, didn’t find it too intuitive. It lacks the features
[quote comment="276516"]utorrent is only for windows[/quote]You can use µtorrent under Linux with Wine…
About Deluge, i tried it and it wasn’t stable… oO
My choice would definitely go to Ktorrent, but Transmission is a good choice for those who don’t need many features.
Agreed with kornflake, dht should stay out of transmission and yes its good for noobs.
I hope one day people will get over it with utorrent.Sorry fanboys.
For me transmission is just missing ip blocklist,if it comes in a near futur,i will use it.
KTORRENT for me right now but it can change.
I used Linux exclusively since about 2004. Mostly just used the X version of bittorrent and now ktorrent. Found transmission in the repo’s of my distro (pclinuxos) so I am going to give it a try. One of the difficulties I have had in trying to get windows users to try linux is the perception that linux is difficult to use. So even if a torrent client is lean on features but is easy to use. It is not an all together bad idea to include such an app as a default distro. Particularly one ideal for new linux users like ubuntu.
My perception of Transmission, on OSX at least, is that it’s a pile of bug riddled crap. Sure, Azureus is heavy and OSX has pathetic Java support, but at least it gets the job done right.
Didn’t Transmission have a long-standing bug that cause it to corrupt data and endlessly request the same packets from trackers? Wasn’t Trasmission banned from a number of private trackers because of the drain that bug caused?
That bug may be fixed now, but their quality control leaves much to be desired. I’ll stick with KTorrent.
bad move
nearly every release has some sort of major problem: from the early versions with not honoring the announce interval, the middle releases with corrupting files, bad ratio reporting and memory leaks up to the infamous 0.9x branch (file corruption *again*, router death, problems connencting to official BitTorrent, BitTornado, ABC, etc.) and the 1.0 to 1.0.3 releases are easy to shot down remotely:
http://trac.transmissionbt.com/ticket/667
Of course, those bugs are fixed, sometimes they are really fast doing that. But one can indeed wait, with which bugs they will surprise us (tracker staff and the other peers in the swarm) next. Indeed, quality control is bad - and Transmission isn’t worth the trouble at all.
Latest rtorrent for the masses!
ollie, +1
Ubuntu users can’t handle rTorrent.
No offense towards them.
Awesome!
Transmission is by far the best. No bloat, just functional interface. It’s not as awesome as on the mac, but I completely support this decision.
It certainly looks like a Gnome application - extremely simplistic. Too simplistic for my taste, but then again I don’t use Gnome anyway.
I’ve been quite happy with KTorrent, which ships with Kubuntu.
What, graphics for a BT app?
I have used, use, and will use Aria2.
Ktorrent has DHT, PeerGuardian, File pre-allocation, Zeroconf and UPnP.
Go KDE!
Use uTorrent and get familiar with RIAA and same sort of organizations. Because uTorrent is now officially maintained and marketed by BitTorrent Inc. uTorrent sends all your usage data to RIAA’ cheers!
Yes, best client for X is Ktorrent, it has DHT, PeerGuardian, zeroconf, UPnP, web interface and more.
Deluge Torrent is awesome on Ubuntu. It was my default client while my Windows box was out of service.
[quote comment="276325"]No DHT.
Nice try, NEXT![/quote]
DHT is for amateurs.
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