Popular Transmission BitTorrent Client Released For Windows (thenextweb.com)

An anonymous reader quotes an article on The Next Web: Transmission, one of the most popular BitTorrent clients for OS X and Linux, has finally arrived on Windows after roughly a decade in existence. The open-source file sharing app, developed by volunteers and available without ads for free, boasts a small footprint (about 25MB on Windows), support for encryption, a Web interface so you can control it through your browser, as well as the ability to set different speed limits for individual torrents. The current version isn't yet being actively promoted -- to download it, you'll need to head to Transmission's download directory page.

Comments

Small footprint?

[johanw]

Size is relative it seems. uTorrent is less than 1MB, and still fully functional (if you can find a 2.2 version somewhere). But I read webinterface, and we all know web "programmers" are not known for their efficient products.

Re:Small footprint?

[war4peace]

uTorrent also has a web interface. So does qbittorrent.
I'm trying to find ONE reason to use Transmission instead of any other torrent client currently available for Windows... can't find any.

Re:Small footprint?

[Blaskowicz]

uTorrent bundles crapware or spyware with updates, so it's to be considered to be actively user hostile.
Contrary to the good old Windows 98/XP days we can't trust freeware for everything these days, so get an open source torrent client.
The two I know best are Transmission and Deluge.

Transmission was already available as unofficial transmission-qt build

Re:Small footprint?

[johanw]

I did write version 2.2 for that exact reason. I'm still running 2.2.1. Some software is just finished.

Re:Small footprint?

[rdelsambuco]

I run Transmission on a server, then access it from a client via web interface. Thus my boat is floated.

Re:Small footprint?

[dj245]

Reminds me of Netscape in 2001 which was a 25MB+ download. Which didn't compare particularly favorably to Opera 5 @ 2MB, especially considering that Netscape had less features, a larger memory footprint, no tabs and crashed far more often. Transmission: 25MB - considered a small footprint/? uTorrent is what 1 or 2MBs? And is ad-free if you support it.

uTorrent has not been what I would say a "trusted" piece of software for at least a couple years now. It got bloated up and the company lost the morals at some point after version 2. Sure, you can run 2.2.1, the installer is still available, and at the time it was one of the best torrent clients available, but there are probably big security problems with using it in 2016. Not to mention I had some stability problems the last time I tried to use that version.

Re: Small footprint?

[n0creativity]

Some of us refuse to use software where the installer is adware\malware bundled out of principle. Any developer or download site that does this has lost my trust and my respect. Just because you write or distribute free software doesn't give you free reign to try to screw over the people using your software or website. I'd rather have someone charge for their software than stoop to the level of attempting to trick users into contributing to their revenue stream using shady\malicious addon crap.

Re:Small footprint?

[KGIII]

I did like early-on Nero's wizard for burning. It wasn't bad. I remember sticking with whatever version it was that came with a burner that I bought and installed. I then went and tried the newest version (at the time) and they not only wanted me to pay for it but it was everything and the kitchen sink - including a player that set itself as the default - and offered no advanced installation, meaning I had to go reset the damned things to get them back to normal. There was no way to install it without the player and, at the time, the player wasn't *needed* but helped for playing DVDs.

And it was a huge memory hog - at a time when memory was still fairly expensive. I want to say this was sometime around 2005 when I'd tried the new version (I was still mostly using Windows then). It was also a HUGE download. I'd recently moved and had no access to broadband at the house so I downloaded it at my office - it was that large. I'm going to guess that "large" was in the 80 to 100 MB area for the installer.

I seem to recall marveling, albeit disgustedly, at the vast amounts of RAM it consumed. It was a memorable thing, no pun intended and not in a good way. What was amazing was that it had gone to that stage so quickly - just a few short years.

It wasn't unique in those regards... It's like everything wanted to be the one piece of software you depended on. Tweak applications started to contain anti-malware, anti-malware got rolled into one, firewalls started to include anti-virus, music players wanted to subsume your whole experience, email clients wanted in on it too, browsers started to include everything, and more. To top it off, the bastards stopped using difference files and started making you download the whole program again instead of just updates.

I was kind of annoyed for a while.

Finally!

[slashdice]

After adding malware support, windows support seems like a good next step.

Re:Most popular by design

[Penguinisto]

True, but damn it works rather well; it's one of the initial packages I install whenever I find myself with a new Mac.

Re:Bitcoin miner

[Andor666]

Nope, that was uTorrent

http://www.engadget.com/2015/0...

Re:25kB

[jetkust]

No mistake. We're talking about a world where Notepad is 189KB.