Proposing Transmission BitTorrent client as default

[Jo-Erlend Schinstad]

Hello,

On 11/01/2008, Charles Kerr <charles at rebelbase.com> wrote:
> As one of the Transmission developers, I wanted to speak up and
> make myself available for questions and feedback.  I like gnome-bt
> but, as you'd expect, I'd love for Ubuntu to use Transmission.

Good to have you with us. :)

> Like gnome-bt, Transmission tries to be simple and "just work",
> but Transmission also has MSE/PE encryption,
> supports port forwarding for UPnP/NAT-PMP routers,
> has the ability to choose which files in a torrent to not download,
> has the ability to prioritize which files to download first,
> and provides a gui for creating new torrents.
> Transmission 1.00 has been downloaded 234,014 times since it
> was released five days ago.

That's quite a few downloads, and it's probably not counting those
coming from distro repositories? Congratulations on your success :)
You answered several of my questions, however, I have one more for
you. Does it support DHT for trackerless torrents? That seems to be
important to people.

Jo-Erlend Schinstad