#3 Deluge

IT'S TIME for the third installment of My favorite Linux applications. To day it is all about one Bittorent program Deluge. As keeping with the order previously assigned I will give a history of th product and then proceed to describe some of it various components.

The very first version of deluge was released to the public on September 25, 2006. It was originally intended to be called G-torrent and was released under that name but was quickly changed to avoid the confusion that it would be touted as a gnome only program. For the 0.5 on March 18, 2007 release there was a major rewriting of the source code for Deluge as many of the features were consolidated together. Version 0.5.8 is the latest release and has many improvements from previous versions including an internal anonymizing browser.

The plugins included are:

• Blocklist Importer
• Desired Ratio
• Extrastats
• Locations
• Network Activity Graph
• Network Health Monitor
• RSS Broadcatcher
• Torrent Creator
• Torrent Notification
• Torrent Search

I have been using deluge for the past few months and have a had very few problems that weren't my creation. And if you have any problems the forums are very helpful. Deluge is also available for Windows through an official port and mac through Macports.

The Deluge site is http://deluge-torrent.org/

I hope you enjoy Using deluge as I have it is a very good application and has plenty of potential for the future.

Be sure to stay tuned for the next installment in the Linux series on Smplayer and base application Mplayer.

To you my friends I bid you adieu.