BitTorrent support in Ubuntu

[Mackenzie Morgan]

A bunch of us argued for Deluge and were told we could install it after the
fact if we wanted access to all those features, but that Transmission was
chosen for simplicity.  Mentioning the number of features your program has
makes your case harder to fight to get it included.

On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 9:53 PM, Alan McGovern <alan.mcgovern at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'd just like to generate a bit of discussion on the choice of
> Transmission as the default bittorrent client for Ubuntu. First, i'm the
> developer of the C# based MonoTorrent library (X11/MIT License), so I'm
> probably biased in my opinions as to what client is best. The bittorent
> client i'd like to propose is the GUI for MonoTorrent which was developed as
> part of the google Summer of Code. My thoughts are laid out in my blog (
> http://monotorrent.blogspot.com/2008/03/so-thought-struck-me.html) but
> i'll put the main text here for ease of reading.
>
> My angle is that MonoTorrent supports everything Transmission does [b]and
> significantly more[/b]. Features such as the Fast Peer Extensions,
> multi-tracker protocol and UDP Tracker protocol are all great things for end
> users which MonoTorrent supports (details linked in blog). The GUI has RSS
> integration, cool tagging of downloads into groups, integrates into the
> notification area and can monitor a directory to automatically download new
> torrents which are placed there. It also has a nice clean interface. Best of
> all, in the video[1], which i encourage you to watch, it downloads a Ubuntu
> torrent ;)
>
> One issue which i can think some people might raise is that of memory
> consumption. All i can say is that i have done extensive work on optimising
> MonoTorrent for both memory consumption and CPU usage and am happy that it
> is pretty good. Secondly - install size. The current packages i have for
> Suse are ~380kB (~600kB installed). This can be reduced by at least 100kB as
> outlined in the blogpost.
>
> So, what do ye think?
> Thanks,
> Alan.
>
> [1]http://buchan.esoteriq.org/soc/monotorrent_demo.ogg
>
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