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Deluge is a BitTorrent client, created using Python and GTK+ (through PyGTK). Deluge is currently usable on POSIX-compliant operating systems including most Linux and Unix/BSD machilnes. It is intended to bring a native, full-featured client to GTK desktop environments such as GNOME and Xfce. An official Windows port is also in development. The program uses the libtorrent C++ library.
Deluge was created by two members of ubuntuforums.org, Zach Tibbitts and Alon Zakai.
While under early development, Deluge was known as gTorrent, because it was to be a BitTorrent client for GNOME (the "g" in "gTorrent" stood for "GNOME"). When the very first version was released to the public on September 25, 2006, the client was renamed to Deluge to avoid implying that the client was GNOME-only.
The 0.5 release is a complete rewrite from the 0.4.x code branch. This was to do away with some of the coding conventions in the earlier versions, aiming for a cleaner, more polished result.
Recently, work has been done to bring Deluge to other operating systems. Starting with version 0.5.4.1, Deluge is available for Mac OS X via MacPorts, and it has an official Windows installer.
Not yet tested or rated by Computer Buzz.
Official Website: www.deluge-torrent.com
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