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Transmission: fast, cross-platform BitTorrent client

October 3rd, 2005

From the guy who developed HandBrake, a DVD ripper known to many Mac OS X users, comes Transmission. Developed with efficiency in mind, it uses up much less CPU than others do for me, (especially the CPU-hungry Azureus). Comes with a CLI client and a nice (though very simple) Cocoa GUI; probably would compile on Cygwin/Windows, although it doesn’t claim to work on Windows at all.

Seems fast, and you have to dig the icon.

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# Ta'nernin
Comment on October 5th, 2005 at 5:00 am

Wow, this is frickin’ FAST.

Much, MUCH better than Azuraus. The downlload ramped up so much quicker than it does normally. Great find, chucker – while I’m sure it can be added to, I hope it keeps the simple interface and the anti-bloat start up.

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