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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Transmission is by far the best torrent client, good move imo
I’ve been using Transmission on my Mac and it has proven to be a stable solution for my torrents. For the normal users (which most the Ubuntu users are) it’s a good client to include in their releases.
well utorrent is a proprietary project now, so i’m glad they didn’t put it in, transmission looks like a good choice, but personally, i will replace it with azureus anyway…
Hi,
I am an Ubuntu developer and am currently packaging clutch for Ubuntu. I hope for it to be in Hardy so that we can just one-click install it. See http://revu.tauware.de/details.py?package=clutch for the status.
lol I still use utorrent 1.6.1. I will not upgrade to 1.7+ EVER/ 1.6 is stable AND has all the features I want. Now, for linux, I prefer rtorrent.
Deluge is FAR better, i’ve tried both of them. Just my grain of salt though…
I applaud the team for putting something else in other than the BitTorrent client. That thing sucks so bad it defys explanation.
I am however firmly planted in the ktorrent camp and pimp it whenever possible (including now).
this client is not nearly as feature rich as deluge. Deluge supports dht, blocklists, upnp, and more. Best part, it uses a plugin based system so its as light as you want! Not to mention it supports ALL OSs. Deluge ftw!!!
From what I read this is missing a lot of features(that should be standard) and it looks incredibly simplistic. Perfect for Ubuntu users and their Gnome DE! No DHT, no PG, and a lot of other missing features. I wouldn’t be surprised if it didn’t come with protocol encryption. Good job Canonical, pretty soon all of your converts will come from the clueless land of Windows to the clueless land of Ubuntu and Gnome. Please keep this poison out of Kubuntu, Ktorrent is quite sufficient.
Transmission is ok but if you are a power user you will use Azureus .. it has all the features you can think of ..
[quote comment="276344"][quote comment="276336"]pics or it didn’t happen[/quote]
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^^ Fixed
Everything great in software has always
originated from Linux! ty Linus.
[quote comment="277693"]Transmission is ok but if you are a power user you will use Azureus .. it has all the features you can think of ..[/quote]
I am a power user who does not use Azuereus. QED, your premise is false.
[quote comment="277693"]Transmission is ok but if you are a power user you will use Azureus .. it has all the features you can think of ..[/quote]
I am a power user who does not use Azureus. QED, your premise is false.
Too bad Transmission can’t be used at private trackers. It has had a bug for as long as I can remember that makes it report a few million terabytes uploaded to the tracker and yes, that will get you banned. I don’t know if it’s fixed but it was still there a year ago and had been there pretty much all the time so my guess is they still haven’t fixed it.
New versions of Transmission and Clutch were released.
What about the way too short interval with reconnecting to peers, it is rediculous…
Is this fixed already?
KTorrent is faster though with it’s nicer value.
Transmission is a beautiful, easy to use client, I love it.
Those suggesting Azureus can blow me. Every time I tried Azureus on Linux or Windows there was a crash, file which didn’t save, a Java related error, or some other fucking problem.
And sorry, no, it wasn’t MY fault, I scrounged several forums, wikis, help sites, IRC, you fucking name it, it didn’t matter what I tried Azureus always wanted to throw me some curveball.
If Azureus is your choice and it works for you, I’m happy, but for me it just never worked, and no I’m not willing to try it again and no I don’t care about your poor rebuttals to my post, your ego doesn’t matter so save yourself and others the pain of trying to feel better defending something you enjoy, no one cares.
Transmission is great, Ubuntu is smart for choosing it.
Transmission has no IP blocking. WTF?
[quote comment="277942"]New versions of Transmission and Clutch were released.[/quote]
That was fixed long ago.
[quote comment="277877"]Too bad Transmission can’t be used at private trackers. It has had a bug for as long as I can remember that makes it report a few million terabytes uploaded to the tracker and yes, that will get you banned. I don’t know if it’s fixed but it was still there a year ago and had been there pretty much all the time so my guess is they still haven’t fixed it.[/quote]
This was fixed long ago (ignore the last post. ;) )
Why not deluge? The interface is much nicer, as the most relevent details for each torrent are display tabularly. Transmission is alright, but nothing on Deluge. *sigh*
The CPU overhead from Deluge and Azureus can be very noticeable on slower computers (what Ubuntu is designed to run on). Transmission is the obvious choice here. In fact it was the obvious choice when Transmission 0.5 came out.
[quote comment="276321"]Awww, thought it would be uTorrent :p[/quote]
Unfortunately, uTorrent is not yet compatible with Linux. Although there are rumors a Linux version will be made soon (no clue if it’s true).
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