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

Posted by msmash on from the handy-software dept.

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.

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  1. Small footprint? by johanw · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.

    1. Re:Small footprint? by Blaskowicz · · Score: 4, Informative

      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

    2. Re:Small footprint? by dj245 · · Score: 3, Interesting

      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.

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    3. Re: Small footprint? by n0creativity · · Score: 3, Insightful

      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.

  2. Finally! by slashdice · · Score: 5, Informative

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

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  3. Re:Most popular by design by Penguinisto · · Score: 4, Informative

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

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  4. Re:Bitcoin miner by Andor666 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Nope, that was uTorrent

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