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Plus this is old news, apparently: Release Date: 6/18/2008

i use torrent flux, and it destroys everything else. LAMP based, so I can access it from any computer in my house. I strongly recommend it. http://www.torrentflux.com/

I recently set up torrentflux on my always-on box at home, sharing some music from Jamendo and the latest Kubuntu beta. Nothing wrong with that. But I sometimes wonder if someone will see that I'm running a bittorrent node and attack me because of that, without bothering to notice what content I am sharing.

All of the Bittorrent clients eat up too much CPU, especially when downloading very fast (400 kB/s hogs hard drive and CPU )...so I finally threw TorrentFlux on my fileserver and will never go back! It's a PHP client that actually uses the standard bittorrent client (can be modded to use other command line clients), but I can have 20 torrents going now without slowing down my desktop.

I agree; I use Torrentflux myself to remotely administer my torrents, but almost always I'm adding torrents during lunch so I have a TV show to watch when I get home. Managing upload rates doesn't interest me at all.

I can see this being somewhat useful if you have a long bus ride and want to add some torrents, but none of the torrent sites I use seem to have a cut-down mobile interface, so I don't see where you'd get them in the first place.

Hell, I've got 2gb and it's not even enough for Zend + Azureus at the same time.

That's because Azureus is a pig!. Try TorrentFlux. Install a web server (you already have Zend, so I'm guessing you're set up on that point) and install TorrentFlux. I even tried Azureus headless with the web interface, but my "server" hit loads of 1.0-2.0 any time I had more than a couple of torrents running. Now my server never runs over .20, even when I'm saturating my connection.

The feature set is great and it's extendable. Look it over.

I never liked either of them. uTorrent is Windows only and BitTorrent is somewhat lacking on the Mac. As much as I think Azureus is cool, I am starting to take a liking to Torrent Flux. Plus... I can run it on my hosting site.

Torrentflux is a webinterface for Bittorando running on Linux , also got support for Windows now...

I think the crew was aiming on thinking of making a embedded version :
  http://www.torrentflux.com/forum/index.php/topic,3 24.0.html

And now I see that I can download porno movies without even turning on my computer.

Personally, I like TorrentFlux. It's PHP-based, so I can access it from anywhere - handy when I stumble upon something while I'm at work.

And for Linux, use TorrentFlux which is a PHP torrent client which is controlable from the web.

It's really sweet and it's way nicer than VNCing to a Linux desktop filled with BitTorrent clients opened.

Adding a Bittorrent client to a browser doesn't seem like a good fit to me - a BT client needs to run continuously in the background, downloading and uploading the files.

A browser's model is more one of "load the thing and show it" or "Stream the thing and show it". How does that map to BT, where you cannot even "stream" a thing (since you are getting the pieces out of order)?

Will we see people who's torrent clients only serve the file while it is being downloaded, and then stops?

Personally, I run Torrentflux - which is a PHP CGI app that allows me to download & serve torrents on my server - then I just point my browser at it to set things up.

Now, *if* the browser plug-in then communicated with a [daemon|service|external program] that did the torrent work, and all the plug-in did was send the command to the external entity to command the queuing of the download (and then open a window in the browser when the download is done)- then that might make sense.

Set up one machine with some sort of filesharing & VNC & big HDDs and make that everyone's central torrent location. Have it set with reasonable bandwith limitations & go from there.