The Transmission is one of the best BitTorrent Clients which are available recently. The software is so good that people love it and the Ubuntu appreciates it by making it as the default Client. It has all the features that you need and is lightweight also.
The Ubuntu has a BitTorrent Client named Gnome and it is now being replaced by the Transmission. This Ubuntu torrent Client is being included in the 4^th Alpha release of hardy heron. In April 2008 a stable version of Ubuntu torrent Client 8.04 was released.
The most of the users after using the Transmission BitTorrent Client are more than satisfied and so there has been an increase in its popularity. The users feel that it is very fast and allows them to use it with less disk space usage. The cross platform product is available for all the operating systems and is an open source project. But it is not provided for windows instead utorrent is being used. They both are relatively similar and satisfy a BitTorrent user’s needs.
This is what the Transmission team words meant when BitTorrent was adapted by Ubuntu: “The Transmission software has been built with the goal of being lightweight but also being a commanding BitTorrent Client. It has a very elegant yet simple interface that allows you to work on any chosen platform. Transmission is the perfect choice as it would provide functionality without bloat and is well balanced.”
Since the BitTorrent Client is lightweight it can be used on mobile phones, routers and NAS devices. The clutch adds to the advantages of Transmission as you would be able to control and supervise the torrent transfer from one particular place. The clutch team has released v0.3 and further.
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