BitTorrent support in Ubuntu

[Vadim Peretokin]

On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 9:58 PM, Mackenzie Morgan <macoafi at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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