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Transmission BitTorrent Client Now Bundled With Clutch | TorrentFreak — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 06:06:47 +0000

[...] and according to the developers was designed to offer functionality without bloat. It is now the default BitTorrent client on [...]

By: name

name — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:23:29 +0000

no windows?

By: X3STeNLiTE

X3STeNLiTE — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 13:36:33 +0000

absolute stablity. NO DHT NO GHOST PEER(S)

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 03:23:12 +0000

I’m actually getting the same sort of speeds with transmission then with utorrent, I’m quite happy to no longer have to deal with a buggy wine runtime. DHT will come, give it time. and lets not kid ourselves, Gnome BT sucked serious anus. Its nice to see a proper client in heron.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 11:02:14 +0000

Deluge wouldn’t be bad if it actually worked. Unfortunately it crashes more often than a drunk NASCAR driver.

Azureus may have a lot great features, but it’s resource usage is ridiculous.

Utorrent is great on windows, but it’s not a Linux application. Using wine just slows things down.

Transmission is way to simple. It has a cool icon though.

Ktorrents alright, but it could be better.

It’s a pity that can’t meld all the bit’s of the the top clients to make a super client.

By: Pablo

Pablo — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 02:13:38 +0000

Looks ugly in ubuntu.

By: Rasta

Rasta — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 08:56:34 +0000

Yes, deluge is both unstable AND resource hog too. It’s written in Python, so it can’t be fast or lightweight. Just look at it’s resource usage when you run it. It uses 30-40 megs less then Azureus, so i prefer Azureus. Transmission – too simple, like “kidware” or something.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 11:54:32 +0000

Deluge just sucks & is developed by incompetent programmers. Transmission is the best choice.

By: DEBob

DEBob — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 05:43:27 +0000

[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).

By: Snarius

Snarius — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 20:39:40 +0000

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.

By: Barney

Barney — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 19:31:04 +0000

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*

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 18:10:19 +0000

[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. ;) )

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 16:18:58 +0000

[quote comment="277942"]New versions of Transmission and Clutch were released.[/quote]

That was fixed long ago.

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By: Jza

Jza — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 13:43:03 +0000

Transmission has no IP blocking. WTF?

By: bobonmyknob

bobonmyknob — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 12:41:43 +0000

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.

By: stoeptegel

stoeptegel — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 10:28:04 +0000

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.

By: Mister Name

Mister Name — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 09:07:22 +0000

New versions of Transmission and Clutch were released.

By: BramTourette

BramTourette — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 07:05:26 +0000

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.

By: iain

iain — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 06:21:30 +0000

[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.

By: iain

iain — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 06:21:00 +0000

[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.

By: Anon

Anon — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 06:20:31 +0000

Everything great in software has always
originated from Linux! ty Linus.

By: Ernest-oh

Ernest-oh — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 02:27:55 +0000

[quote comment="276344"][quote comment="276336"]pics or it didn't happen[/quote] allah! [/quote] ^^ Fixed

By: seeder

seeder — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 02:17:48 +0000

Transmission is ok but if you are a power user you will use Azureus .. it has all the features you can think of ..

By: Chomp

Chomp — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 01:12:48 +0000

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.

By: scubanator87

scubanator87 — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:43:33 +0000

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!!!

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:09:35 +0000

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).

By: Guillaume Pelletier

Guillaume Pelletier — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 23:08:43 +0000

Deluge is FAR better, i’ve tried both of them. Just my grain of salt though…

By: anon

anon — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 22:12:56 +0000

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.

By: jdong

jdong — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 22:07:39 +0000

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.

By: popo boldo

popo boldo — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 21:59:30 +0000

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…

By: Kazuma

Kazuma — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 21:42:19 +0000

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.

By: skzo

skzo — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 21:33:55 +0000

Transmission is by far the best torrent client, good move imo

By: Julius

Julius — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 21:22:29 +0000

[quote comment="276325"]No DHT.

Nice try, NEXT![/quote]

DHT is for amateurs.

By: Amorrn

Amorrn — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 20:49:38 +0000

Deluge Torrent is awesome on Ubuntu. It was my default client while my Windows box was out of service.

By: lulz

lulz — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 20:28:31 +0000

Yes, best client for X is Ktorrent, it has DHT, PeerGuardian, zeroconf, UPnP, web interface and more.

By: K...

K... — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 19:42:15 +0000

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!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 18:17:30 +0000

Ktorrent has DHT, PeerGuardian, File pre-allocation, Zeroconf and UPnP.

Go KDE!

By: ,

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 17:58:27 +0000

What, graphics for a BT app?

I have used, use, and will use Aria2.

By: .

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:48:18 +0000

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.

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 15:57:10 +0000

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.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 15:45:48 +0000

Ubuntu users can’t handle rTorrent.

No offense towards them.

By: tallman

tallman — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:31:42 +0000

Latest rtorrent for the masses!

ollie, +1

By: ollie

ollie — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 11:48:57 +0000

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.

By: harley

harley — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 07:04:24 +0000

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.

By: neeks

neeks — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 06:15:13 +0000

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.

By: chow

chow — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 04:53:02 +0000

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.

By: obscur156

obscur156 — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 04:35:10 +0000

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.

By: Julien

Julien — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 03:22:16 +0000

[quote comment="276516"]utorrent is only for windows[/quote]You can use Âµtorrent 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.

By: Vish

Vish — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 02:52:43 +0000

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

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