Deluge is an up-and-coming BitTorrent client for Mac, Windows, and Linux that looks strong enough to compete with the likes of Azureus, uTorrent, and Transmission.
Deluge supports the most common P2P features, including encryption, UPnP and NAT-PMP, Mainline DHT, proxy support, and more. The main strengths of Deluge, however, come from its design:
- The program has a clean interface and is easy to look at, which makes for simple and unobtrusive torrent downloading.
- The program was built to be extensible, with a rich plugin collection (many plugins are included in the software already)
- The progam was designed to be lightweight; it doesn't tax your system like other BitTorrent clients.
[via Freeware Genius]
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4-17-2008 @ 3:11PM
Jason said...
uTorrent taxes my system...?
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4-17-2008 @ 3:16PM
Xell said...
they mean Azureus.
If you want a real client, use BitTyrant...cross platform and up to 70% faster ;)
4-17-2008 @ 6:12PM
PS_4 said...
Doesn't tax my system, however it slows down my network like hell. So does BitComet. Azureus on the other hand can download files at over 500KB/s without making webpages unloadable.
4-17-2008 @ 3:19PM
Mehrab said...
that's really my favourite BitTorrent client
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4-17-2008 @ 3:22PM
Jason said...
I tried BitTyrant for a while. Contrary to it's reputation, in my experience it wasn't any faster and consumed more resources then uTorrent. I went back to the green U.
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4-17-2008 @ 3:42PM
Bufsabre said...
i love deluge and would use it if i could but my favorite tracker doesnt allow it
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4-17-2008 @ 4:19PM
Andrew said...
Me and my elitist butt will stick with Delu- I mean, Azureus.
If anything else, it has the classiest name.
No horribly original wordplay on the whole Torrent thing here.
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4-18-2008 @ 5:16AM
Maikel said...
Yes it runs on Mac, but through MacPorts. Seems very complicated...
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4-18-2008 @ 11:01AM
Punong Bisyonaryo said...
I really like Deluge, simply because it's incredibly simple to use. Just run it, and it works. Saved me the stress when I was living in a very restrictive firewalled residential unit. Very light, too, since it uses GTK+.
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4-18-2008 @ 3:56PM
Superevil said...
Upcoming? I've been using it on Ubuntu for like 2 months now. Works great but I don't seem to be able to select which files I wanna download from the torrent.
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4-18-2008 @ 5:08PM
PS_4 said...
Tried it for a while, and yep, it slows my net down horribly, just like uTorrent and Bit Comet. Sticking with azureus; I can live with the slow startup and 50+ MB of mem usage.
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4-18-2008 @ 7:39PM
jfjb said...
My µTorrent takes 5.940K only, not 50+ MB of mem usage.
4-18-2008 @ 6:35PM
Jack said...
I think Deluge is great, fast, stable and has some great plugins (creating most of the funtionality). I've been using it from Dapper to Hardy and it's been brillant, much better than uTorrent under Wine.
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4-19-2008 @ 2:36AM
clay said...
i have been using deluge for a long time now in ubuntu. its been the best torrent client since having to move away from utorrent, the only feature its missing (or that i miss from utorrent) is download categories.
I didnt realize it was cross platform, guess it was just too easy to do add/remove program inside ubuntu to notice:)
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4-20-2008 @ 6:55AM
cuprohastes said...
OK, having spent several hours with deluge:
On windows it works fine
on Mac OSX it's horrifically broken. Avoid like the plague until the authors grow a brain and start providing pre-compiled binaries.
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