GUI Thursday: Transmission - BitTorrent Client

Thursday, August 23. 2007

Posted by Chris Tyler in GUI Thursday at 00:01 | Comment (1) | Trackbacks (0)

GUI Thursday: Transmission - BitTorrent Client

Fedora 8 is quickly approaching: the first test release is available, the second test release is scheduled to come out in less than two weeks, and with Live CD images, it's easier than ever to participate in testing. The preferred method for downloading Fedora installation images is BitTorrent via the tracker at http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/

There are quite a few BitTorrent clients available in the Fedora repositories. One of the newest is Transmission, which offers some of the most useful features of the highly-regarded Azureus client (including PEX - peer exchange of information traditionally sent through the tracker), but is a native binary and does not require Java. It is has a lightweight design and a sleek but informative user interface -- definitely worth checking out!

Installing from the command line: yum install transmission
Installing using the graphical installer: Applications > Graphical Internet > transmission
Menu location after installation: > Applications > Internet > Transmission
Command: /usr/bin/transmission-gtk
Upstream website: http://transmission.m0k.org/

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Due to problems with past versions of Transmission, it is still banned at some trackers. However, Fedora also comes with Deluge, which is nicely lightweight, but has plugins for some of those extra features. KTorrent is nice too, especially if you run KDE.

#1 John on 2007-08-23 21:14 (Reply)

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