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 (<a href="http://monotorrent.blogspot.com/2008/03/so-thought-struck-me.html">http://monotorrent.blogspot.com/2008/03/so-thought-struck-me.html</a>) 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